Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07DAKAR1113
2007-05-23 08:53:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Dakar
Cable title:
SENEGALESE ATTENDANCE AT THE AGOA FORUM
how-toVZCZCXYZ0000 RR RUEHWEB DE RUEHDK #1113 1430853 ZNR UUUUU ZZH R 230853Z MAY 07 FM AMEMBASSY DAKAR TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 8364 RUCPDOC/USDOC WASHDC RUEHAR/AMEMBASSY ACCRA 1500
UNCLAS DAKAR 001113
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR AF/EPS AND AF/W
STATE PLS PASS TO USTR
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ETRD GH SG
SUBJECT: SENEGALESE ATTENDANCE AT THE AGOA FORUM
REF: A. STATE 058394
¶B. DAKAR 1054
On May 22, the Embassy received a letter from Minister of Commerce,
Consumer Affairs and Handicrafts Khouraichi Thiam, indicating that
he would attend the AGOA Forum along with Maimouna Savane, Director
General of the Senegalese Agency for Export Promotion (ASEPEX); Omar
Samb, Director General of Agency for the Promotion and Development
of Handicrafts (APDA); Cheikh Saadbou Seck, Director of External
Commerce and key actor in organizing the AGOA Forum in Dakar in
2005; and Moctar Diakhate, Director of Handicrafts. The Senior
Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Finance have yet to confirm their
participation and may not until after the much-anticipated cabinet
changes that are expected to follow parliamentary elections on June
¶3.
JACOBS