Identifier
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07DAKAR1113
2007-05-23 08:53:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Dakar
Cable title:  

SENEGALESE ATTENDANCE AT THE AGOA FORUM

Tags:  ETRD GH SG 
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DE RUEHDK #1113 1430853
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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