By Mohamed Attia and Mohamed Abo el-Soud
The first session of an endorsement workshop for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) kicked off in Cairo Monday, with the participation of member states’ delegations, air navigation service providers and representatives of the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority.
The three-day workshop will tackle the theme of adopting a regional institutional framework for deploying interoperable communication, navigation, monitoring, and air transport management systems in the Eastern and Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region.
In his opening remarks at the session, Civil Aviation Minister Mohamed Abbas Helmy said Egypt, Chair of COMESA for the 2021-2023 term, is hosting the event in appreciation of its pivotal role in the civil aviation industry.
He also applauded the effective coordination between the ministry and the regional economic bloc to bolster civil aviation cooperation with all countries, especially sisterly African nations.
As defined by its treaty, COMESA was established in 1994 ‘as an organization of free independent sovereign states which have agreed to co-operate in developing their natural and human resources for the good of all their people’ and as such it has a wide-ranging series of objectives which necessarily include in its priorities the promotion of peace and security in the region.
It includes 21 African states as members.
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