17TH COMESA BUSINESS FORUM IN BUJUMBURA, BURUNDI: INTERVENTION BY THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN TRADE, JULIEN PALUKU KAHONGYA
Panelist this Monday at the 17th Common Market Business Forum for Eastern and Southern Africa-COMESA in Bujumbura, Burundi with the theme "Accelerating regional integration through the development of value chains in the areas of climate-resilient agriculture, farming and tourism"; The Congolese Minister of Foreign Trade proposed to the member countries of this African organization to now move to the stage of mobilizing financing with the creation of investment banks to develop the infrastructure, energy and agriculture sectors while also raising financing on carbon credits.
Production basins must be clearly identified by COMESA countries, added Julien Paluku Kahongya while selling
the opportunities offered by the Democratic Republic of Congo with its 80 million arable lands.
In giving the go to this COMESA Business Forum, the Prime Minister of Burundi, Lieutenant-
General, Gervais Ndirakobuca called on member countries to now invest in the development of value chains in the sectors of agriculture, mining and tourism to thus promote development and the fight against poverty.
He took the opportunity to congratulate the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia who have embarked on the major project of the battery and electric vehicle industry which will change the economies of African countries.
