Abuja, Nigeria - The 34th ordinary summit of the heads of state and government of ECOWAS has allocated the posts of Director-General and Deputy Director- General of the inter-governmental action group on money laundering (GIABA) to Nigeria and Senegal respectively.
According to a communique issued here Monday at the end of the summit, the Nigerian Director-General and his Senegalese Deputy will assume office when the current holders of the posts complete their terms 30 April 2009 and 11 January 2009 respectively.
Regarding the post of Commissioner for Human Development and Gender allocated to Senegal, the Heads of state and government endorsed the appointment by the Council of Ministers of Dr. Adrienne Diop.
They also directed the ECOWAS Commission to undertake a study to be presented to them at their next session on an appropriate structure of the Commission to en s ures effective implementation of community decisions.
The leaders expressed gratitude to all development partners of ECOWAS for their support towards the realisation of the Community objectives and programmes, capacity building of ECOWAS institutions as well as enhancing peace and security in the region.
They drew attention to the continuing need for support towards post-conflict rec onstruction in certain member states and expressed the hope that the Partners Forum on Liberia scheduled to hold on 26-27 June in Berlin, Germany, would be well a ttended by development partners.
They also called on partners to support the forth-coming ECOWAS Conference on Climate Change scheduled for Cotonou, Benin, from 27-31 October, 2008.
The participants expressed deep appreciation to the government and people of India for announcing in April 2008 the facility for duty free imports from African LDCs into India, among other initiatives, and urged ECOWAS LDCs to take full advantage of this offer for the benefit of increased trade exchanges between West Africa and India.
Regarding the ECOWAS/China Economic and Trade Forum planned for 23-26 September 2008 in Beijing, China, the leaders urged member states to effectively prepare with their respective private sectors to derive maximum benefits from the platform.
The Summit endorsed the candidacy of Mr. Gilbert Houngbo of Togo for the position of President of the International Fund for the Development of Agriculture (IFAD).
The next ordinary session of the ECOWAS leaders will hold in December 2008 in Abuja, Nigeria's Federal capital.
Abuja - 24/06/2008
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Source: Afriquenligne
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