East African Community
PRESS RELEASE
SECRETARY GENERAL LAUNCHES ROME CHAPTER OF EAC DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS
Diplomatic missions pledge to market region
East African Community Secretariat, Arusha, 6 November 2012:
The Secretary General of the East African Community Amb. Dr. Richard
Sezibera Monday launched the “EAC Rome Chapter” in Rome, Italy. The
Chapter comprises EAC Partner States diplomatic missions based in the
Italian capital and was formed within the context
of promoting and strengthening coordination of common foreign policies.
While addressing members of the diplomatic corps, businessmen and friends of East Africa, Amb. Sezibera said the launch
of the EAC Rome Chapter comes at a time when the EAC was vibrant and resurgent marked by a GDP rise from
US$ 20 billion in 1999
to US$ 80 billion currently.
The EAC Secretary General, himself a medical doctor, warmly welcomed a proposal by Italian doctor Luigi Gentilini
to establish a mobile floating hospital on Lake Victoria. The hospital is aimed at reaching
out to needy communities living around Lake Victoria.
The
Chairman of the EAC Rome Chapter and outgoing Dean of the Partner
States’ ambassadors, HE Deo Rwabita, Uganda’s
ambassador to Italy, said regional integration would help to boost the
economies of the Partner States and speed up regional development.
“The EAC initiative is aimed at attracting investors and uplifting the economic status of East Africans and we all
must support it for our common good,” said Amb. Rwabita.
HE Amb. Dr. James Msekela from the United Republic of Tanzania read out a joint declaration signed by all the Ambassadors
committing the Rome missions to market the region and promote EAC’s interests.
The occasion also saw change of leadership of the EAC Rome Chapter being assumed by HE Josephine Gaita, Kenya’s ambassador
to Italy as incoming Dean of the EAC Ambassadors.
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