JK chief guest at ATI annual general meeting

By The guardian reporter

President Jakaya Kikwete

President Jakaya Kikwete is expected to be the chief guest at the African Trade and Insurance Agency (ATI) Annual General Meeting slated for Dar es Salaam, May 8 this year.


ATI Communications Chief Officer Sherry Kennedy told The Guardian that the meeting will involve participants from 20 countries drawn from within and outside the continent.

She said preparations were underway for the event adding that the meeting would commence on May 6 and reaches its climax on May 8.

He mentioned the countries that have confirmed to attend the meeting as Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Benin, Ghana, Cameroon, Mozambique, Malawi, Madagascar, Democratic Republic of Congo, US, Italy, Ireland and the host country, Tanzania.

For his part, the ITA country representative, Tusekile Kibonde, said the meeting will have the theme, "Help Energy and Infrastructural Sectors."
Elaborating, she said, since ATI was introduced in the country five years ago, it has worked in collaboration with the government to attract investment and trade valued at 2.4trn/-.

Tusekile added that, ATI was founded ten years ago by the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) member countries and the World Bank (WB), to help attract foreign investment and trade to the continent. 

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN