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UNCLAS NAIROBI 003021 
 
SIPDIS 
 
AIDAC 
 
AID/EAST AFRICA COLLECTIVE 
STATE FOR AA/AFR, AFR/DP, AFR/SD, AFR/EA, AFR/EGAT/EG 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O.12958: N/A 
TAGS: OTRA
SUBJECT:  THE TWELFTH SUMMIT OF THE COMESA AUTHORITY OF 
HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT. THEME: DEEPENING REGIONAL 
INTEGRATION FOR DIVERSIFICATION AND VALUE ADDITION 
 
SUMMARY: 
 
¶1. This is a summary of the Twelfth COMESA Summit 
proceedings held in Nairobi, Kenya, from May 22-23, 
¶2007. The Summit was preceded by meetings of the 
Committee of Experts, Ministers of Justice, Ministers of 
Foreign affairs and COMESA Council of Ministers. The 
Fourth COMESA Business Summit and the Fourth COMESA 
First Ladies Roundtable were also held over the same 
period. 
 
¶2. The Authority adopted a common external tariff 
structure, with raw materials and capital goods at a 
tariff rate of zero percent, intermediate goods at ten 
percent, and finished goods at twenty-five percent.  The 
Authority announced that COMESA will launch its Customs 
Union on December 8, 2008.  It also determined that the 
COMESA Fund will support countries that experience 
revenue losses from joining the Free Trade Area and/or 
the Customs Union. The fund will also be used for 
infrastructure development. The Summit directed the 
Council of Ministers Chairperson to convene a summit 
meeting between COMESA, the East African Community (EAC) 
and the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) in 
order to agree on a convergence time table for the three 
regional organizations? programs, in accordance with the 
requirements of the African Union. 
 
¶3. At the Summit, Zimbabwe was elected as Vice Chair of 
the Authority and appointed to host the 2008 Summit. 
 
¶4. This cable provides a list of participants at the 
Summit (paragraphs 5 - 9), a summary of the opening 
speeches (paragraphs 10-15), the final Summit communiqu 
(paragraph 16-32), and additional contact details for 
more information (paragraph 33). 
 
ATTENDANCE: 
 
¶5. The Summit was attended by the following COMESA Heads 
of State and Government: Mr. Mwai Kibaki, President of 
the Republic of Kenya, King Mswati III of the Kingdom of 
Swaziland, Mr. Robert Gabriel Mugabe, President of the 
Republic of Zimbabwe, Mr. Yoweri K. Museveni, President 
of the Republic of Uganda, Mr. Meles Zenawi, Prime 
Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, 
Mr. Ismail Omar Guelleh, President of the Republic of 
Djibouti, Mr. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of 
Rwanda, Mr. Levy Patrick Mwanawasa, President of the 
Republic of Zambia, Mr. Salva Kiir Mayerdit, First Vice 
President of the Republic of Sudan, Dr. Martin 
Nduwimana, First Vice President of the Republic of 
Burundi, Mr Ikilou Nidhoime, First Vice President of the 
Union of the Comoros. 
 
¶6. The following Plenipotentiaries represented the Heads 
of State and Government of the following COMESA 
countries: Murlidhar Dulloo, Minister of Foreign Affairs 
of the Republic of Mauritius, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, 
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of 
Egypt, Joyce Banda, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the 
Republic of Malawi, Ali A. Triki, Minister for African 
Affairs of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Marcel Ranjeva, 
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of 
 
 
Madagascar, Gata Mavita Ignace, Minister of Regional 
Integration of the Democratic Republic of Congo, 
Jacquelin P. Dugasse, Minister of Investment, Industries 
and Technology of the Republic of Seychelles,  and 
Stifanos Habte Ghebremariam, Head of the Delegation of 
the State of Eriteria. 
 
¶7. Numerous countries were represented by their Special 
Envoys to COMESA. Ambassador Carmen Martinez led the 
U.S. delegation to the summit.  Other envoys to COMESA 
were from France, Cuba, Italy, China, Russia, India, 
Botswana, Germany, Sweden, and Japan. 
 
¶8. The following representatives from international and 
regional organizations participated in the deliberations 
of the summit:  Commissioner Dr. Maxwell Mkwezelamba of 
the African Union, Ms. Anna K. Tibaijuka, Executive 
Director of the United Nations Organization in Nairobi 
(UNON),  Ambassador Julius Onen, Deputy Secretary 
General, East African Community (EAC), Ambassador 
Liberta Mulamula, Executive Secretary of the 
International Conference on the Great Lakes Region 
(ICGLR),  Mr. G. Onyango, Executive Secretary of the 
Northern Corridor Transit Transport Coordination 
Authority (NCTTCA), Mr. Charles M. Mbogori, Executive 
Director, East African Business Council (EABC), and Dr. 
Kandeh K. Umkella, Director General of the United 
Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). 
 
¶9. The following represented the COMESA Institutions: 
Honorable Nzamba Kitonga, President, COMESA Court of 
Justice, Dr. Michael Gondwe, President, Eastern and 
Southern Africa Trade and Development Bank (PTA Bank), 
Mr. Shadreck Lubasi, Managing Director, PTA Re-Insurance 
Company (ZEP-Re), Dr. Kombo Moyana, Executive Secretary, 
COMESA Clearing House, Dr. Geremew Debele, Director, 
Leather and Leather Products Institute (LLPI), and Mr. 
Peter Jones, Managing Director of the African Trade 
Insurance Agency (ATI). 
 
¶10. The following organizations were also represented: 
the African Development Bank (ADB); the European 
Commission (EC), the U.S. Agency for International 
Development/East Africa (USAID/EA), World Bank, 
Commonwealth Secretariat (COMSEC), Food and Agricultural 
Organization (FAO), International Civil Aviation 
Organisation (ICAO), Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the 
International Labor Organisation (ILO), United Nations 
Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the East African 
Trade Hub (ECA Hub), Association for Strengthening in 
Eastern and Southern Africa (ASERECA), the World Food 
Program (WFP), Southern Africa Customs Union, 
International Organisation for Migration (IOM), and the 
International Organization of the Francophonie(IOF). 
 
OPENING STATEMENTS: 
 
¶10. In his speech, Mwai Kibaki, President of the 
Republic of Kenya, expressed gratitude to Djibouti 
President Ismail Omar Guelleh, for his contribution to 
the COMESA regional agenda.  Kibaki announced that the 
Summit agenda included taking stock of the status of 
COMESA regional integration agenda, reviewing the 
implementation of the on-going projects and programs, 
 
 
and assessing the progress achieved in the 
implementation of the Djibouti Summit Declarations. He 
emphasized the importance of the proposed Common 
External Tariff structure, a cardinal requirement for 
the launch of the COMESA Customs Union. 
 
¶11. In the keynote address, the outgoing Chairman of the 
COMESA Authority, President Guelleh, announced that the 
launch of the COMESA Customs Union will be celebrated on 
December 8th, 2008, in Harare Zimbabwe. President 
Guelleh noted that Djibouti, as Chair of COMESA, 
undertook consultations, immediately after the November, 
2006 Summit, with member States that had not yet acceded 
to the COMESA FTA. The outcome of these consultations 
was that all COMESA non FTA member States had reaffirmed 
their commitment to join the FTA at the earliest 
opportunity. 
 
¶12. President Guelleh noted that COMESA had achieved 
success on the common external tariff structure for the 
Customs Union by establishing a four-band system: 0 
percent for capital goods, O percent for inputs, 10 
percent for semi-finished goods, and 25 percent for 
finished goods. He noted that the Council of Ministers 
had come up with a Common External Tariff Structure 
(CET), which meets the requirements of all COMESA 
countries. President Guelleh then noted that an 
important feature of this CET structure was that it 
provided for "national policy space and flexibility on 
specific and limited product lines for reasons of 
competitiveness and revenue considerations."  President 
Guelleh stated that --taking into account that COMESA 
member States had limited savings for investments-- 
contacts had been initiated with financial institutions 
and private investors in the Gulf States, India, and 
China to ensure enhanced foreign direct investment in 
the region. 
 
¶13. President Guelleh noted the need to urgently address 
regional infrastructural challenges. He further observed 
that it was common knowledge that COMESA ports, roads, 
railways, telecommunications, and energy facilities had 
to be redesigned to inter-connect COMESA countries. 
They would require new investments as well as upgrades 
to existing networks. President Guelleh announced that 
COMESA Ministers responsible for Infrastructure had met 
jointly and had devised a compendium of infrastructure 
projects that require a total investment of USD 28 
billion.  He also indicated that Djibouti would be 
willing to host the COMESA Fund. 
 
¶14. President Guelleh informed the Summit participants 
that the cooperation between COMESA, SADC, IGAD, EAC and 
IOC, through the Inter-Regional Co-coordinating 
Committee, had been positive.  The Committee had made 
progress toward convergence and the ultimate realization 
of an African Economic Community under the African 
Union. He observed that the joint COMESA, EAC and SADC 
Task Force had also made considerable progress in 
harmonizing common programs, thus avoiding duplication 
of efforts and waste of scarce resources. He then 
proposed that the COMESA members needed to reaffirm 
their commitment to the convergence process of the 
regional economic communities, at a political level, to 
 
 
ensure the success of the harmonization efforts. 
 
VOTE OF THANKS: 
 
¶15. King Mswati III of Swaziland thanked President 
Kibaki and President Guelleh for their encouraging 
statements, which in his view had set the stage for the 
deliberations of the Twelfth Summit. Mswati noted that 
Kenya has been a key contributor to the integration 
agenda of COMESA and further highlighted the importance 
of economic integration as a tool for addressing the 
challenges of development. He also affirmed that all the 
Member States had been confident in the leadership of 
President Mwai Kibaki during his tenure as Chairman of 
COMESA. 
 
THE FINAL COMMUNIQUE OF THE TWELFTH COMESA SUMMIT: 
 
¶16. At the end of the Summit, the Heads of State and 
Government released the following communiqu stating as 
follows: 
 
a)  ELECTED by acclamation the Republic of Kenya as 
Chairman, the Republic of Zimbabwe as Vice-Chairman and 
the Republic of Djibouti as Rapporteur 
b)  NOTED with appreciation the Report of the Secretary 
General on the State of Integration in COMESA 
c)  CONSIDERED AND ADOPTED the Reports of the Twenty 
Third Meeting of the Council of Ministers and the Eighth 
Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs 
d)  ENDORSED the recommendations of the Fourth COMESA 
Business Forum and agreed on the need to strengthen 
public and private sector partnership 
e)  ENDORSED the Communiqu of the Fourth Roundtable of 
the First Ladies of the COMESA countries which took 
place concurrently with the Twelfth COMESA Summit. 
 
¶17.  TRADE AND CUSTOMS DEVELOPMENT: 
 
a)  NOTED with satisfaction the rapid and sustained 
growth in intra-COMESA trade in 2006 over 2005 and 
COMMENDED member states for agreeing to remove the 
remaining non tariff barriers 
b)  URGED all Member States not yet participating in the 
Free Trade Area (FTA) to join the FTA before the launch 
of the COMESA Customs Union on December 8, 2008 
c)  ADOPTED the COMESA Common External Tariff structure 
of a four band category of raw materials, zero percent; 
capital goods, zero percent; intermediate goods, ten 
percent and final goods twenty-five percent, with the 
provision for flexibility on policy space 
d)  DIRECTED that all the necessary technical work and 
implementation modalities on the Common External Tariff 
(CET) based on the UN classification system and other 
related areas be finalized before the next Summit of 
Heads of State and Government to ensure that the Customs 
Union is launched on 8th December 2008 
e)  REAFFIRMED the commitment to launch the COMESA 
Customs Union on 8th December 2008 
f)  DIRECTED all member States to implement the agreed 
workings and processing for the Change in Tariff Heading 
(CTH) origin conferring criterion 
g)  AGREED on the need to complete the program on Trade 
in Services as its promotion has potential to enhance 
 
 
growth of all the COMESA economies. 
 
¶18.  MONETARY AND FINANCIAL MATTERS: 
 
a)  CALLED upon member States who are yet to ratify the 
COMESA Fund to do so, in order to enable them to benefit 
from the Regional Development Fund 
b)  NOTED that the COMESA Fund was now in force and 
STRESSED the paramount role to be played by the Fund as 
one of the regional financial vehicles to receive all 
development funding for COMESA from Aid for Trade, 
Economic Partnership Agreement and other financial 
assistance schemes 
c)   ENDORSED the establishment of a COMAid unit in the 
COMESA Secretariat to undertake technical analysis and 
prepare a coherent Aid for Trade compatible program to 
access the available resources under the Aid for Trade 
initiative for addressing trade-related infrastructure, 
supply-side constraints and economic and social costs of 
adjustment arising from the implementation of bilateral, 
regional and multilateral trade agreements 
d)   CALLED on development partners to support an 
ambitious COMESA Aid for Trade Program to be launched in 
¶2007. 
 
¶19. MULTILATERAL ISSUES: 
 
a)   NOTED that the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) 
negotiations that were launched in 2004 between Eastern 
and Southern Africa countries and the European Union had 
made significant progress since the last Summit and are 
expected to be concluded in December 2007 
b)  REAFFIRMED the importance of ensuring that EPA 
should be a development tool to support ESA countries to 
address the supply side constraints of the region as 
well as improve ESA market access to the European Union 
(EU) 
c)  RECALLED the commitment and the decision of EU 
Council to provide additional resources for EPA 
implementation and adjustment costs, taking into 
consideration the regions development needs as spelt out 
in the draft development matrix and urged that such 
resources be adequate and be provided on a predictable 
basis 
d)  WELCOMED the resumption of the WTO Doha Development 
Agenda negotiations earlier this year 
e)  REITERATED that the WTO negotiation process should 
be transparent, all-inclusive and open to all Members 
f)  STRESSED that the outcome of the WTO Doha 
Ministerial Declaration (DDA) should meet the 
development expectations of developing and least 
developing countries, including COMESA Member States in 
line with the letter and spirit of the Doha Ministerial 
Declaration. 
 
¶20. INFRASTRUCTURE: 
 
a)  COMMENDED the ongoing implementation of Joint Air 
Transport Competition Regulations by the responsible 
Ministers of COMESA, SADC and EAC and AGREED on the 
speedy establishment of the Joint Competition Authority 
b)  URGED all Member States to implement the COMESA 
trade and transit transport facilitation instruments so 
as to enhance movement of transit and cross border 
 
 
traffic 
c)  AGREED on the need for COMESA to develop a Model 
Agreement for Railways Concessioning within the COMESA 
region and on the need to facilitate the establishment 
of a seamless rail transportation system in the COMESA 
region 
d)  ACKNOWLEDGED the important role of Information 
Communication and Technology (ICT) in social and 
economic development and COMMENDED the ongoing regional 
ICT Broad band initiatives 
e)  URGED Member States to allocate funds from the 
national budgets as their contribution and commitment to 
project implementation and REQUESTED Member States to 
establish national Private Public Partnership units to 
facilitate development of bankable projects 
f)  DIRECTED the Secretariat to establish a dedicated 
Project Preparatory Facility with the mandate to prepare 
bankable regional infrastructure projects and negotiate 
with potential financiers supported by the project 
steering Committees. 
 
¶21. INFORMATION AND NETWORKING 
 
a)  URGED the Member states to pursue the adoption of 
laws on e-legislation, including on Computer Crime and 
Electronic Transactions 
 
¶22. AGRICULTURE: 
 
a)  NOTED that the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural 
Development Program (CAADP) was being implemented at 
both the regional and national levels and urged Member 
States to accelerate the rate of its implementation in 
order to address issues for increased Agricultural 
Production and Food Security in the COMESA region. 
b)  NOTED progress made in the implementation of the 
Agricultural Marketing Promotion and Regional 
Integration Project (AMPPRIP) and in particular, noted 
that a region-wide and Web-based food and Agricultural 
Management Information System (FAMIS) had been designed 
and would soon become operational 
c)  COMMENDED Member States which had attained 
Agricultural surplus, during the 2007/2008 marketing 
season as a result of progressive policies and support 
programs. 
 
¶23. INDUSTRY: 
 
a)  URGED Member States to promote value adding 
technologies and agro processing Industries as part of 
the diversification of their economies 
b)  APPRECIATED that the Secretariat had, as directed by 
the Djibouti Summit, commenced analytical work to 
compile an inventory of productive and manufacturing 
structures in all Member States in order to identify 
existing and potential industries to supply the COMESA 
Market 
c)  INSTRUCTED the Secretariat to undertake further 
analytical work in full collaboration with Member States 
d)  URGED Member States to designate dedicated officers 
to serve as National Focal Points for the compilation of 
an inventory of the main industrial production and 
manufacturing structures. 
 
 
¶24. PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT: 
 
a)  COMMENDED the COMESA Business Council and the Kenya 
Association of Manufacturers for successfully convening 
a Business Forum on the margins of the Summit to promote 
Public Private Partnership 
b)   AGREED on the need for the Business Community and 
other stakeholders to work closely with National 
Governments in support of the regional integration 
agenda 
c)  WELCOMED the increased participation of private 
sector, NGO and Civil Societies entities in COMESA 
Programs. 
 
¶25. LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL: 
 
a)  ADOPTED the Investment Agreement for the COMESA 
Common Investment Area and opened the Agreement for 
signature by those States that are ready to sign the 
Agreement 
b)  AGREED on the need to continue strengthening the 
COMESA Court of Justice. 
 
¶26. COOPERATION BETWEEN COMESA, OTHER REGIONAL ECONOMIC 
COMMUNITIES AND THE AFRICAN UNION: 
 
a)  NOTED with satisfaction the enhanced collaboration 
between COMESA and other regional organizations in 
Africa particularly with EAC, IGAD and IOC in the 
framework of the Interregional Coordination Committee 
(IRCC) with the objective of achieving program 
harmonization and convergence so as to expedite the 
realization of the African Economic Community 
b)  COMMENDED the progress being made in the framework 
of the Joint Task Force between COMESA, SADC and EAC to 
discuss the coordination and harmonization of the 
activities of the three institutions 
c)  MANDATED the Chairman of the COMESA Authority to 
consult with SADC and EAC on the convening of a joint 
Summit for the three Regional Economic Communities 
(RECs) 
d)  AGREED that the acceleration of integration of 
Africa can best be achieved through the adoption by all 
Regional Economic Communities of Convergence criteria 
for attaining continental integration under the 
coordination of the African Union. 
 
¶27. COOPERATION BETWEEN COMESA AND PARTNERS: 
 
a)  EXPRESSED APPRECIATION to the many cooperating 
partners for their continued support to the 
implementation of COMESA programs and APPRECIATED the 
new partnership with the Cooperation Council of the Gulf 
States (GCC). 
 
¶28. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: 
 
WELCOMED the continued implementation of the COMESA 
Gender Policy. 
 
¶29. COMESA INSTITUTIONS: 
 
NOTED with appreciation the operations of the COMESA 
Institutions and their positive contributions to the 
 
 
COMESA integration Agenda. 
 
¶30. PEACE AND SECURITY: 
 
a)  REVIEWED the progress made so far in addressing 
peace and security issues in the COMESA Region. 
b)  COMENDED COMESA Member States for their ongoing 
efforts in addressing issues of peace and security in 
the Common Market as well as the Continent as a whole 
and URGED them to intensify their efforts in the search 
for modalities for addressing issues of peace and 
security as well as post conflict transformation issues 
c)  RECALLED the mandate adopted in their previous 
Summits to focus on addressing the root causes of 
conflicts in areas of comparative advantage for COMESA 
in trade and investment to compliment the efforts of the 
African Union Peace and Security Council and other sub 
regional mechanisms 
d)  NOTED with satisfaction the participation of COMESA 
as a building block of the African Union, in the 
development and consolidation of the African Union Peace 
and Security Architecture through the implementation of 
Continental Peace and Security Programs such as the 
Continental Early Warning and Response Mechanism as well 
as the development of the Continental Policy on Post 
Conflict Reconstruction and Development 
e)  CALLED on COMESA to mainstream its mandate in 
conflict prevention in all trade and investment programs 
to ensure that Economic Integration serves as a catalyst 
for peace, security and stability as envisioned by the 
designers of the COMESA Treaty 
f)  REAFFIRMED the continuous need to enhance solidarity 
among Member States of COMESA through adherence to the 
principles under which the COMESA Treaty was founded 
such as the promotion of good governance, good 
neighborliness and the resolution of conflicts through 
dialogue 
g)  CONGRATULATED His Excellency President Joseph Kabila 
of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for his 
election to the High Office of the President of the 
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) 
h)  CONGRATULATED His Excellency President Marc 
Ravalomanana, on his re-election to the High Office of 
the President of the Republic of Madagascar 
i)  COMMENDED AND CONGRATULATED the people and 
governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) 
and Madagascar, for successfully holding peaceful 
democratic elections 
j)  EXPRESSED APPRECIATION to COMESA Member States for 
supporting the electoral processes in the two countries 
by participating and supporting COMESA Electoral 
Observer Missions to the elections 
k)  NOTED with appreciation the offer made by the 
Government of the Republic of Zambia to assist the 
Democratic Republic of Congo and other COMESA Member 
States emerging out of conflicts in the establishment of 
governance systems based on her past experience in 
assisting some countries in the region 
l)  CALLED upon COMESA Member States and the wider 
International Community to continue providing support to 
the Democratic Republic of Congo and other COMESA Member 
States in the Great Lakes Region towards consolidation 
of peace and security as well as addressing issues of 
post conflict transformation 
 
 
m)  CALLED upon COMESA Member States to work together in 
organizing an Investment Conference for the Democratic 
Republic of Congo as a contribution to the Post Conflict 
Reconstruction and Development of the Country and the 
Great Lakes Region as a whole 
n)  NOTED with appreciation the conclusion of the 
Tripoli Consensus on the holding of peace talks on 
Darfur and URGED all parties to the Conflict to utilize 
this consensus in finding a political solution to the 
conflict 
o)  CALLED upon the International Community to support 
and strengthen AMISOM and address the humanitarian needs 
of the civilian population in Somalia 
p)  COMMENDED the Government of the Republic of Uganda 
for deploying Peacekeepers to Somalia and the Government 
of Burundi in its readiness to deploy peacekeepers to 
join AMISOM in Somalia. 
 
¶31. CLOSURE OF THE SUMMIT: 
 
31.1  Vote of Thanks: 
 
a)  Robert Mugabe, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe 
delivered what was to be a five minute ?Vote of Thanks? 
but instead spent 45 minutes lashing out at ?foreign 
powers? in general and epically at the UK, U.S., and the 
EU.  He focused on blaming the woes of the entire 
continent on ?imperialism and colonial intervention? 
instead of highlighting the main issues discussed by the 
meeting such as the Customs Union and ongoing 
negotiations with the European Union. Most of the 
address was devoted to the political and economic 
problems in Zimbabwe (all attributed to interference by 
the UK and the U.S. along with distorted reporting by 
the international press).  Mugabe?s remarks received 
applause from the audience. President Mugabe closed by 
thanking the COMESA Secretariat for their excellent 
support to the Summit and promising that the Summit in 
Harare in 2008 would be just as successful. 
 
31.2 Chairman?s Closing Statement: 
 
a)  In his closing statement, Kibaki stressed that 
achieving and sustaining deeper integration at the level 
of Customs Union required addressing the region's vast 
rural and urban infrastructure requirements and 
improving the investment climate. 
b)  He further emphasized the need to improve COMESA's 
ability to produce value-added products for regional and 
global markets in the agricultural and industrial 
sectors. He underscored the need to pay attention to the 
export of "products of the intellect." President Kibaki 
then indicated that the key to this was human resource 
development, particularly in science and technology. 
c)  President Kibaki stressed that stable political and 
social conditions were necessary to nurture sustained 
growth and integration. He noted that the number of 
conflicts had dramatically reduced in the past three 
years, thus, making it possible for COMESA to provide 
undivided attention to finding lasting solutions to the 
remaining conflicts. President Kibaki then indicated 
that this Summit had in no small measure contributed to 
the Africa Union efforts of re-establishing peace in the 
few trouble spots in the COMESA region. 
 
 
 
¶33. Key Contacts for more Information: 
 
a)   Visit COMESA at www.comesa.int 
b)  Stephanie Wilcock, Regional Trade Advisor, USAID 
East Africa, Regional Economic Growth and Integration 
Office; email: swilcock@usaid.gov. 
c)  Nzuki Mwania, Regional Trade Policy Specialist, 
USAID East Africa, Regional Economic Growth and 
Integration Office; email: nmwania@usaid.gov. 
 
SLUTZ