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OAS Co-organizes Americas-Africa Business Forum: New Commercial Partnerships for Economic Growth

  April 16, 2013

The Organization of American States (OAS), together with the government of Trinidad and Tobago, will organize the "Americas-Africa Business Forum: New Commercial Partnership for Economic Growth," on April 18, in the Hall of the Americas of the main building of the hemispheric organization in Washington, DC.

The event will be inaugurated by the Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza; the Assistant Secretary General of the OAS, Albert Ramdin; and the Secretary General of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Sindoso Ngwenya.

The forum will be attended by officials, diplomats and entrepreneurs from the Americas and Africa, among them the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar; the Prime Minister of Haiti, Laurent Lamothe; the Minister of Finance of Egypt, Morsi El Sayed Hegazy; the Minister of Finance of Mozambique, Manuel Chang; the Minister of Finance of Panama, Frank De Lima.

The meeting will be broadcast live on the OAS Website.

WHAT: Americas-Africa Business Forum: New Commercial Partnerships for Economic Growth

WHEN: Thursday, April 18 at 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)

WHERE: Hall of the Americas
Organization of American States
17th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006

Reference: AVI-116/13