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Seychelles fully supports outcomes and resolutions of AU Summit |08 July 2017

 

Vice-President Vincent Meriton, who headed the Seychelles delegation at the 29th Ordinary Summit of the African Union held between July 3-4 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has described the high-level meeting as one built on consensus and forward-looking in nature. 

During the summit a number of decisions and declarations were taken and adopted. The most consequential of these pertain to the institutional reforms of the African Union, spearheaded by President Paul Kagame of the Republic of Rwanda, the AU’s Common African Position on reforms of the United Nations Security Council, the creation of an African Youth Fund as well as declaring the period of 2018-2027 as the African Decade for Technical, Professional, Entrepreneurial Training and Youth Employment.

Vice-President Meriton addressed the Summit on a number of issues including his intervention on this year’s theme-‘Harnessing the Demographic Dividend through Investment in Youth.’ He remarked that the Seychelles government has implemented programmes centred on placing people at the core of a development strategy seeking to empower the country’s youth. 

The vice-president also intervened in the debate on security by highlighting the pioneering role of Seychelles in promoting maritime security in the western Indian Ocean, including the country’s swift response to piracy threats off the coast of Somalia.

The vice-president and the Foreign Secretary in the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Claude Morel, who was also present for the executive council meeting of the AU, conducted a number of bilateral meetings in the margins of the summit.

Seychelles fully supports the resolutions and the outcomes of the 29th Ordinary Summit, aligns itself proactively to the African Union and pays tribute to the notion of Pan-Africanism as espoused by the current chairperson of the Union, Professor Alpha Condé of the Republic of Guinea. 

 

 

 

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