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Article: COMESA to Count-down Free Trade Area Set for; Oct.30 2000
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- July 21, 1999
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The Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) is
launching various count-down activities among its member states
towards a free trade area scheduled for October 31, 2000.
Jerome Ntibarekerwa, Director of Infrastructure Development of the
COMESA, told Xinhua in Lusaka Wednesday that the special committee of
ministers, which is comprising Kenya, Mauritius, Zambia, Uganda,
Egypt, Zimbabwe, Malawi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),
has agreed on a number of activities which should be implemented as
the count-down to the free trade area.
These activities include: publication of COMESA Tariffs by member
states; organization of a COMESA Trade Fair during the extraordinary
summit ...