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Ministry of Commerce & Industry16-September, 2007 15:43 IST
| Blueprint for Action Plan on UNIDO South-South Cooperation
Soon – Deliberations of India-Africa International Conference
on Industry, Trade and Investment
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The blueprint of an action plan to promote south-south cooperation with
countries of Africa will be drawn up soon by the UNIDO Centre For
South-South Industrial Cooperation (UCSSIC), following deliberations of
the 5-day International Conference on India-Africa Cooperation on
Industry, Trade and Investment, jointly organized by the United Nations
Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) in cooperation with the
Government of India, under the aegis of the recently established UCSSIC,
which concluded here on 14th September. The selected
industry sectors for cooperation would include cluster development,
pharmaceuticals, low cost housing and building materials, renewable
energy, leather, ICT applications in industry, food processing and
traditional knowledge and traditional medicines. Participants from 13
African countries said they had learnt a lot about India’s industrial
experience over the last five days, and evinced particular interest in
cluster development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), while
participating in the valedictory session of the Conference dedicated to
the memory of Prof. Sanjaya Lall which was chaired by Shri Ajay Shanker,
Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP),
Government of India and addressed by Shri N.N. Prasad, Joint
Secretary/DIPP; Mr. Philippe Scholtes, Representative and Regional
Director of UNIDO; Shri Anthony de Sa, Director/UCSSIC; representatives
of UNCTAD/ITC, and participating civil servants and private sector
business representatives of the 13 countries of Africa.
Describing the deliberations as productive and useful, Shri Ajay Shanker
said it had helped create a critical mass of interaction and personal
relationships which needed to be built upon to carry the process of
south-south cooperation forward. He also underlined the need and space
for creative industrial policies and programmes, which would lead to
results. Shri Prasad stressed the need for developing on the momentum
generated by the event through country-specific action plans and
monitoring of the progress. Mr. Scholtes spoke of the interest being
expressed by developing countries to share best practices for industrial
development and said that UNIDO was setting up a global network of
south-south centres, which included the UCSSIC set up earlier this year
in India, as well as the centre proposed to be established soon in
China. He said the Conference marked the first step in the road to
stronger trade and industrial relations with Africa, brokered by UNIDO.
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(Release ID :31274)
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