Gabon-Burkina Faso cooperation: about 20 texts to go to ministers
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Infos Gabon
Experts gathered in Libreville examined the second session of the Grand Joint Commission between Gabon and Burkina Faso from 11 to 13 November, fourteen years after the first. Around 20 draft agreements, covering agriculture, security and education among other areas, must now be submitted to foreign ministers for signature, according to the organisers.
Gabonese and Burkinabe experts examined draft agreements in Libreville from 11 to 13 November, during the second session of the Grand Joint Commission, which brings together the two states for bilateral cooperation. Around 20 texts are under consideration, according to the organisers. The next step will be to pass these texts on to the foreign ministers so that they can be signed.
Fourteen years after the first session, held in Ouagadougou in November 2012, the relaunch covers agriculture, security, civil protection, trade, education, higher education, vocational training, labour, social protection, tourism, culture and sport.
Hermann Yiriguin Toé, secretary general of the Burkinabe Ministry of Foreign Affairs, asks experts to develop a cooperation framework based on sustainable socio-economic development. His Gabonese counterpart, Valentin Loemba Bayonne, an ambassador and secretary general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, notes that Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema and Ibrahim Traoré largely share the same views on many issues, whether African or international.
