Intermediate high-level assembly between Benin and Nigeria: Implementation of the commitments made by the 2 Heads of State | www.l-integration.com – INTEGRATION

The Beninese delegation shall be led by Mr. Romuald Wadagni, Minister of State for the Economic system and Finance along with Mr. Shegun Adjadi Bakari, Minister of Overseas Affairs, the Honorable Issa Salifou, the Director Normal of Beninese customs, Mrs. -ph Hassan Adidjatou Zanouvi, from the autonomous port of Cotonou, and a number of other technical officers held a working assembly with Mr. Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, Minister of Overseas Affairs of Nigeria, Dr. Nasir Idris, Governor of Kebbi State, Mr. Bashir Adewale ADENIYI, Comptroller Normal of Customs , representatives of the Ministry of Finance, technical officers and financial operators from Nigeria.

The principle selections of this working session purpose to strengthen cooperative relations and facilitate exchanges between the 2 nations. So each events agreed:

– to reactivate the everlasting joint fee between Benin and Nigeria to periodically talk about matters widespread to each nations and work to resolve neighborhood variations between the nations, the subsequent session of the fee shall be held in mid June;
– to create a bipartisan joint committee to speedily implement the border submit between Segbana in Benin, Tsamiya and Anguwar Sule Wara in Nigeria, with a view to facilitating commerce between the 2 nations by means of the port of Cotonou;
– to tell financial operators from in the present day that, similtaneously the work of the joint committee, they may begin their industrial work by means of the port of Cotonou.

On the finish of the proceedings, the Minister of Overseas Affairs of Nigeria concluded by saying that “Nigeria and Benin are one household of the identical home” and the Minister of State Wadagni emphasised that “it is a historic second within the achievement imaginative and prescient of the Heads of State of the 2 nations »

This assembly is one other necessary step within the new dynamic of cooperation between Benin and Nigeria, particularly by means of opening new avenues for the free motion of products and folks. The choices made are vital to financial growth and stability and are an excellent mannequin of South-South cooperation and inclusion for the complete sub-region.