Kenya and Uganda, key members of the East African Community, have been under pressure to quit Comesa, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. Multiple membership of trade blocs by many African countries has been criticised as complicating trade negotiations.
However, Kenya’s Foreign Minister, Ali Chirau Mwakwere, said resignation was “unlikely”.
He made the announcement at a reception for Comesa's secretary general, Mr Erastus Mwencha.
Mwakwere said that membership to multiple international trade blocs was supposed to give a country opportunities for growth. That was the whole point. Each country chose what was advantageous to that particular country.
Source: Bernard Namunane, The Nation (Nairobi)
11/5/2005
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