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Oman and the Netherlands review bilateral cooperation
By: ONA
Muscat: The Sultanate’s Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands held the 27th political consultation session via video-conferencing on Wednesday.
The Omani side was chaired in the session by Sheikh Khalifa Ali Al Harthy, Undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry for Diplomatic Affairs while it was chaired from the Netherlands side by Paul Huijts, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The session reviewed the existing relations between the two countries and discussed means of promoting cooperation in various fields to serve the joint interests of the two countries’ friendly peoples. The session also touched on the regional and international developments of common concern.
Tajikistan and Oman hold political consultations
AKIPRESS.COM - The first round of political consultations between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan and the Sultanate of Oman was held in the format of a videoconference on January 20.
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The first session of political consultations was held via video-conferencing between the Foreign Ministries of the Sultanate and the Republic of Tajikistan on Wednesday.
Anne Sophie Ave, French Ambassador to Ghana
The French Ambassador to Ghana, Anne Sophie Ave has said the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) which came into full force on January 1, 2021, will take more time to settle down as the regional integration policy in her view could be more complicated than estimated.
AfCFTA seeks to harmonise 1.3 billion people in a $3.4 trillion economic bloc with hopes that the agreement will become the largest free trade area since the establishment of the World Trade Organization.
However the French diplomat while touching on the prospects of the agreement in an interview on with Harriet Nartey on Pan African Television’s Diplomatic Affairs programme Saturday, January 16, 2021, noted that “it seems to be very easy. Truth is it’s a bit complicated because some products you really want to protect, you want to protect a part of your industry, each country has specificities that they want to keep and how do you do with your currency? A