Experts in Yaoundé to streamline the economic communities of the sub region

A workshop for reading of draft texts prepared by Cameroon took place Tuesday, January 27, 2015. For the participants, it was to establish a framework for coordination between the economic community of Central African States (ECCAS) and the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC).

Certainly, the workshop held Tuesday in a big hotel in the Cameroonian capital came timely to emphasize the need for rationalization of economic communities in Central Africa.

Work chaired by the Minister of economy, planning and land use (Minepat) Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi (in his capacity as Chairman of the Steering Committee of the rationalization of the regional economic communities in Central Africa - Copil-Cer) returned in the context of the implementation of the mandate that Cameroon had received from the Conference of Heads of State and Government of ECCAS.

In the presence of representatives of the ECCAS, CEMAC and the Office under regional Central Africa of the United Nations Economic Commission, it came to assess the field survey conducted by the firm Agora Consulting to the seats of CEMAC and ECCAS, as well as in Burundi, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Experts have thus returned on the second meeting of the ERC Copil of the month of February, 2013 in Yaoundé, during which five areas of rationalization had been validated, namely: trade, the free movement of persons, security issues, setting up a framework for coordination between ECCAS and CEMAC, the funding mechanisms.

So many avenues of reflection explored during this workshop's replayed on the harmonised projects developed by Cameroon.