Meeting of African Trade Ministers
(PANA)--African trade ministers will Thursday begin a conference at the headquarters of the AU here during which they will discuss latest economic downturns besieging the continent, vis-a-vis the global financial crisis, increasing food prices, climate change and global trade.
The ministers are also expected to reflect on how the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha round of negotiation and the EPA negotiations can be successfully concluded, a press statement from the continental body disclosed. Ethiopian Trade and Industry Minister Girma Birru, and Elisabeth Tankeu, AU Commissioner for Trade and Industry, are expected to take part in the two-day meeting.
The fifth ordinary session of the AU Conference of Ministers of Trade is a key institutional framework of the African Union, which provides the forum an opportunity for trade ministers to review developments and assess policy implementation.
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