Opening remarks by Abdoulie Janneh, UN under-secretary-general and executive secretary of ECA

Opening Remarks by Abdoulie Janneh, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ECA at the Conference of Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Twenty-sixth meeting of the Committee of Experts. Mr. Janneh, on his remarks highlighted hat, the presence of the In keeping with the spirit of renewed and close partnership, ECA has worked closely the African Union Commission (AUC) to organize this meeting. And the African Development Bank, our conjoined partners in our also continues to partner closely with ECA and the AU Commission efforts to support our countries in their development journey. Our challenge is to while continuing to seek to understand why according to recent assessments Africa is at risk of not meeting the MDGs important though that is seek therefore is to understand how our continent can reach the goals by the target date; what our countries must do, individually and collectively, to achieve success. The whys have been considerably analyzed and we have some pretty good idea of what we need to do but it is in respect of the how it can be done s that we have considerably fall fallen short.

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Format: Speech biblioteca
Language:eng
Published: 2007-03
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10855/47279
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