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Cairo, 5 January 2005
Common Market of Esas and Southern Africa
- COMESA (This letter was also sent to SADC and ECOWAS)
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The Permanent Secretariat
of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organisation - AAPSO - has the
following to submit to your consideration.
In a world subject to profound mutations generated by globalization,
African civil society and organisations have a vital role to play in the
battle for economic development, progress and prosperity for the people
living on this continent.
In this context, AAPSO, which has put the issues of development,
environment, human rights, disarmament, conflicts problems among the top
priorities of its programme of action, considers the time ripe for those
who relentlessly and sincerely express such noble aspirations to seek
ways and means in promoting general action leading to mutual
understanding, genuine relationship and active collaboration. Such move
should be considered as an imperative of our time and a necessity to
strenghtened solidarity among African peoples, civil society and
organisations.
AAPSO is interested in developing close relationship with, and in the
activities of, your esteemed regional economic grouping. It is ready to
maintain contacts by offering its availability to cooperate in domains
of mutual and common interests with proposals, suggestions, analysis or
comments in relation with the economic development of the region. This
should be achieved through sustained relationship, exchange of
informations between our both organisations.
AAPSO currently publishes its own magazine : "Development and
Socio-Economic Progress" as well as political bulletin and others. We
propose to put your organisation in our mailing list.
AAPSO is an international non-governmental organisation enjoying
consultative status with ECOSOC, UNIDO, UNCTAD, UNESCO, DPI, and
observer status with the Non-Aligned Movement as well as with the
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights.
The Permanent Secretariat of the AAPSO would like to stress the
necessity of the proposed cooperation and hopes you will share its view
on this regard..
We avail ourselves of this opportunity to thank you in advance and wish
you all success in your tasks.
Nouri Abdel Razzak
Hussein Dr Morad
Ghaleb
Secretary General
President
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