By The Citizen Correspondent
In Summary
- The meeting sought to find a common stand among African countries on a global environmental meeting to be held in Poland later this year.
New York. President Jakaya Kikwete on Tuesday
chaired his first meeting as the chairman of the African Union Heads of
State and Government on Climate Change.
The meeting was held at the AU’s Permanent Mission to the UN here, where the continental body has an observer status and was attended by Mozambican President Armando Guebuza, Ethiopian Prime Minister Haile Mariam Deselengy and ministers from six other countries -- members of the committee.
The countries include Uganda, Algeria, Senegal, Swaziland, Mauritius and Congo-Brazzaville.
The meeting sought to find a common stand among
African countries on a global environmental meeting to be held in Poland
later this year.
President Kikwete, who is in the US to attend the 68th General Assembly meeting of the UN, was elected to chair the AU committee early this year after the position remained vacant following the death of former Ethiopian Premier, Meles Zenawi, in September last year. Meanwhile, President Kikwete has said there are plans to restructure the Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited to increase efficiency in power supply in the country.
Speaking at a meeting with the delegation of the
Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) here on Wednesday he said the aim
of his government was to increase electricity supply to reach 30 per
cent of the population by 2015. Currently about 21 per cent of Tanzania
access electricity, up from only about 10 per cent in 2005, President
Kikwete told the delegation headed by MCC chief executive officer,
Daniel W Yohannes. MCC offered Tanzania a grant of $698 million (Sh1.1
billion) for funding various infrastructure projects like electricity,
roads, water and airports.
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