VP Faure attends World Oceans Day celebration, African tripartite economic blocs summit
Vice-President Danny Faure is representing President James Michel at the United Nations World Oceans Day Commemoration today at the Unesco
headquarters in Paris, France.
The full-day event, dedicated to the ocean and its link to the climate system, is being organised by the intergovernmental Ocean Commission of Unesco (IOC-Unesco) under the theme: Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet.
Key joint action-oriented recommendations from the event will be presented to the heads of state and United Nations representatives present and later transmitted to the negotiating parties, experts and observers attending the Bonn Climate Change Conference in preparation for the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference (COP21)
From France, the vice-president will travel to Egypt to represent the President of the Republic at the third African Tripartite Economic Blocs Summit on June 10, 2015 in the City of Sharm El Sheikh. The heads of state and government attending the summit will come from member states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and the East African Community (EAC).
The summit will explore development and climate change as well as peace, security and conflict settlement in Africa. It will provide a platform to boost trade and commerce.
The summit will also see the launch of the Tripartite Free Trade Area (FTA), as the first phase of the implementation of a developmental integration strategy that places high priority on infrastructure development, industrialisation and free movement of business persons. The Tripartite FTA, more commonly known as the Grand Free Trade Area, is aimed to be the largest economic bloc in Africa extending to the east and south of the continent and representing a promising market that comprises a huge population and able to absorb African production.
The vice-president will be accompanied to the summit by Ambassador Barry Faure, the secretary of state for Foreign Affairs and Kenneth Racombo, the director general for development and regional integration in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while his delegation to the World Oceans Day celebration comprises Rebecca Loustau-Lalanne, principal secretary for the Blue Economy, Philip Michaud, special advisor for the Blue Economy, and Bernard Shamlaye, Seychelles’ ambassador to Unesco.
The full-day event, dedicated to the ocean and its link to the climate system, is being organised by the intergovernmental Ocean Commission of Unesco (IOC-Unesco) under the theme: Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet.
Key joint action-oriented recommendations from the event will be presented to the heads of state and United Nations representatives present and later transmitted to the negotiating parties, experts and observers attending the Bonn Climate Change Conference in preparation for the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference (COP21)
From France, the vice-president will travel to Egypt to represent the President of the Republic at the third African Tripartite Economic Blocs Summit on June 10, 2015 in the City of Sharm El Sheikh. The heads of state and government attending the summit will come from member states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and the East African Community (EAC).
The summit will explore development and climate change as well as peace, security and conflict settlement in Africa. It will provide a platform to boost trade and commerce.
The summit will also see the launch of the Tripartite Free Trade Area (FTA), as the first phase of the implementation of a developmental integration strategy that places high priority on infrastructure development, industrialisation and free movement of business persons. The Tripartite FTA, more commonly known as the Grand Free Trade Area, is aimed to be the largest economic bloc in Africa extending to the east and south of the continent and representing a promising market that comprises a huge population and able to absorb African production.
The vice-president will be accompanied to the summit by Ambassador Barry Faure, the secretary of state for Foreign Affairs and Kenneth Racombo, the director general for development and regional integration in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while his delegation to the World Oceans Day celebration comprises Rebecca Loustau-Lalanne, principal secretary for the Blue Economy, Philip Michaud, special advisor for the Blue Economy, and Bernard Shamlaye, Seychelles’ ambassador to Unesco.
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