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EAC hails German support
‘EAC Partner States have maintained a high level of co-operation in defense
and security.’
- The Deputy Secretary
General (Finance and Administration) of the East
- African Community, Dr
Kipyego Cheluget has thanked the German government for
- the support it has
extended to the EAC, particularly in the area of capacity
- building for the EAC
secretariat. He said the support had enabled the EAC to
- conduct a number of
studies and publications in the crucial areas of
- regional integration.
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- He said among the
projects which have been supported the German Government
- through the German Agency
for Technical Co‑operation (GTZ), were the
- preparation of the East
African Research Strategy, Industrial Development
- Strategy, Study on
Cross‑border Trade in Agricultural Products; Study on the
- Regional Agricultural and
Rural Development Strategy; and the Investors'
- Guide to East Africa.
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- Dr Cheluget who is in
Germany this week to discuss German‑EAC co‑operation
- said this when he met
with senior officials of the German government in
- Bonn. Among the officials
he met was Mr Rolf Saligmann, Head of the Section
- Eastern and Central
Africa, German Federal Foreign Office and Mr Thomas
- Albert, Head of Eastern
Africa Section, German Federal Ministry for Economic
- Co‑operation and
Development.
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- Dr Cheluget also held
meetings with the officials of the various development
- institutions in Germany,
including the Afrika‑Verein (Africa Association) in
- Hamburg, the Hamburg
Institute of International Economics (HWWA) and the
- German Federal College
for Security Studies.
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- Dr Cheluget called for
increased German investments in the regional
- programmes of the EAC,
particularly in the identified priority projects in
- regional infrastructure,
including telecommunications, energy, roads and
- railways, which were
essential to regional integration. He said the projects
- were highly capital
intensive and called for the support of the EAC's
- development partners in
realising the projects.
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- Today (27 February), the
Deputy Secretary General addressed the Seminar on
- "The road to Development,
Stability and security: The Case of Africa" at the
- Ringhotel Rheinhotel
Dreesen in Bonn, organised by the German Federal
- College for Security
Studies. The Deputy Secretary General said the EAC
- Partner States have
maintained a high level of co‑operation in defence and
- security matters
according to their Memoranda of Understanding on
- Co‑operation in Defence;
and on Foreign Policy Co‑ordination. He said EAC
- was currently focusing on
the development of deeper involvement of the
- private sector and civil
society in the regional integration process.
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