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The Government of Mauritius and the United States Embassy in Port Louis are proud to announce the official dates and programmes for the Second U.S.-Sub-Saharan African Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum. The Second Forum will be held Wednesday, January 15 through Friday, January 17, 2002 at the University of Mauritius campus. Ministerial delegations of up to eight members from the thirty-six AGOA-eligible countries will take part in the plenary and breakout sessions. Themes for the sessions are “Trade” (Wednesday), “Conditions for Investment” (Thursday), and “Investing in People” (Friday). The AGOA Forum opening ceremony is scheduled for 9:00 AM on January 15 and the closing ceremony at 4:00 PM on January 17. United States government agencies participating in the sessions include the Department of State, the U.S. Trade Representative, Department of Commerce, Treasury Department, Department of Agriculture, U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Trade Development Agency. Plenary and breakout sessions will be co-chaired by representatives from the United States and AGOA-eligible countries. A senior Government of Mauritius official will brief AGOA country representatives on Forum planning on November 27 in Addis Ababa. AGOA Private Sector Forum In addition to the government-to-government Forum scheduled at the University of Mauritius, a parallel private sector event is being organized by the Mauritius American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) and the African Coalition for Trade (ACT). The workshops will be held January 14-16 at the Radisson Hotel. The Private Sector Forum will include a trade exhibition at the Freeport focused on AGOA, open to companies from the United States and AGOA-eligible countries, and plenary sessions and workshops on a broad range of topics, including finance, doing business with the US, agriculture, trade barriers, and bio-technology. Representatives of the private sectors of the United States and the AGOA-eligible African countries will be attending. For more information, please see the following webpages: www.agoa.mu and www.africacncl.oog AGOA NGO Forum The Foundation for Democracy in Africa, in conjunction with the African Union and other NGOs including the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa, Bread for the World, and the Constituency for Africa, are organizing an event called "AGOA: The NGO Perspective on Implementation, Progress, and Future Objectives," to be held at the Indira Gandhi Centre January 13-15. It will include programmes on assessing AGOA's results, the role of civil society in trade, challenges facing Africa, civil society and governance, linkages between AGOA and efforts to reduce rural poverty, assessing the impact of trade on human development in Africa, and others. |
AGOA Forum dates set for Mauritius