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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) -
The two-day conference aimed at
encouraging private sector financing for the New Partnership
for Africa's Development (NEPAD) ended Tuesday in Dakar with
business representatives expressing satisfaction with the
initiative.
In a "declaration of the international private sector" some
500 delegates at the two-day conference called for "the setting
up of a structure for international coordination" so as to ease
future contacts with the NEPAD Steering Committee.
In the declaration, the private sector expressed satisfaction
at being "deeply involved through the participation of some 900
hundred businessmen coming from across the world."
It recommended that such direct opportunities for dialogue "be
repeated as often as possible."
The declaration acknowledged the presence of the decision-
makers present in Dakar to set a sound business environment in
Africa, particularly in terms of political and economic
governance.
The private sector declaration congratulated host President
Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal for his initiative, and African
businessmen who met earlier January to discuss NEPAD.
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| Dakar - 16/04/2002 |
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