Tanzanian FM Leaves on Tour to India, Vietnam and ChinaJakaya Mirisho Kikwete, Tanzania's minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation and his 10-man delegation left Dar es Salaam Tuesday for a 20-day official tour to India, Vietnam and China to promote economic and trade ties with the three Asian countries.Kikwete is expected to meet his Indian counterpart, External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh, and the two sides will meet at the fifth Indo-Tanzanian Joint Commission. The meeting, an effort to revive the commission which last met in Dar es Salaam in 1981, will focus on agriculture, information technology and soliciting investments in various areas. Kikwete will sign an agreement with Vietnam on establishing a Permanent Joint Commission and opening a forum for stepping up cooperation between the two countries. While in China, Kikwete will make some follow-up efforts to strengthen the outcome of the Sino-African Cooperation Forum which was held in Beijing last October. The delegation includes the Minster of State in the Zanzibar Chief Minister's Office Salim Juma Othman and other senior officials from the Ministries of Finance, Industry and Trade, Agriculture and Food Security and Science, Technology and Higher Education. It also includes representatives from the Tanzania Investment Center, Zanzibar Chamber of Commerce and Cashewnut Board of Tanzania. |
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