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Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi visiting Kenya

Tigrai Online
March 01, 2012

PM Meles and President Kibaki of Kenya

Ethiopia Prime Minister Meles Zenawi arrived in Kenya Thursday as the two countries engage in major infrastructure development to boost trade.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Kenya Private Sector Alliance said the Ethiopian leader will be in Nairobi until Friday.

President Kibaki and Mr Zenawi will on Friday witness the signing of bilateral agreements between the two countries. Thereafter a joint communiqué will be issued at State House, Nairobi.

“The consultative meetings will provide a platform for high level interactions, develop an agreed outline of areas that require intervention by both governments and possibly come up with time bound action plans for resolving existing trade barriers including mitigating trade balance between the two countries,” Kepsa chief executive Carole Kariuki, said.

Mr Zenawi is expected to deliver a key note address to Kenya-Ethiopia Business Forum.

With more than 80 million people, Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked nation in the world and has the biggest economy by GDP in East Africa and Central Africa.

Kenya is Ethiopia’s second biggest trading partner in Africa after Djibouti.

Trade between Kenya and Ethiopia is further expected to rise in the coming year following the signing of a $743 million deal for the construction of the Addis Ababa-Nairobi-Mombasa road project last June.

Source, Daily Nation

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