Congo: Asecna committed to securing air transport in Africa
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The representative in Congo of the Agency for the Safety of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar (Asecna), Joachim Tchissambou, said on Wednesday in Brazzaville, that his agency is still committed to the security of air transport on the continent, as a prelude to the celebration of 60 years of its existence.
The security of air transport, according to Tchissambou, is most effective today thanks to the significant progress on the technical level.
For example, he said, air traffic controllers now have means of visualizing traffic with the introduction of new technologies, including radar guidance, terrestrial and satellite DSP, etc.
Asecna was created from the will of eleven states of Africa and France which ratified, on December 12, 1959, in Senegal, the convention of Saint Louis, recalled Tchissambou, adding that later, other states, including Cameroon, Togo, Mali, Equatorial Guinea and Comoros joined the agency.
"Congo is proud to belong to this agency which has shown its international and national evidence whose ambition is to federate all African States to make Africa a unique sky," he said.
Celebrations of the agency's 60th anniversary were launched by the Chief of Staff of the Minister of Transport, Civil Aviation and Merchant Navy, Raphaël Ngatsono. He said that Congo is only tied to the multi-directional evolution of this security agency that makes Africa a single sky at the level of civil aviation.
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