JK joins team to discuss globalization
President Jakaya Kikwete
In Summary
Apart from participating in the discussion over
various agenda, President Kikwete was scheduled to speak in the opening
session alongside Ban Ki-Moon and Mr Barosso.
Dar es Salaam. President Jakaya Kikwete has been
appointed among a few prominent people to brainstorm over ‘New Ideas
for a Fair Globalisation’.
According to a statement released by the State
House Directorate of Communication yesterday, the United Nations’
Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and the president of European Commission,
Mr Jose Borosso, President Kikwete has been asked to join other renowned
individuals to debate on how globalisation could be achieved in a more
equitable manner to benefit all countries in the world.
The team would discuss new ways of ensuring fair
globalisation and equality in a retreat meeting to be held in Alpbach
Village in Austria, starting today.
The two-day meeting, which would be led by Mr Ban
and Barosso as chairmen, would be held under the European Forum Alpbach.
Mr Kikwete would be the only African leader participating in the event.
Apart from participating in the discussion over
various agenda, President Kikwete was scheduled to speak in the opening
session alongside Ban Ki-Moon and Mr Barosso.
Mr Kikwete will also give a speech during the closing session together with the president of Austria, Dr Heinz Fischer.
Mr Kikwete already left the country on Wednesday
evening to Alpbach for the meeting whose main agenda would focus on
sustainable energy and climate change, food security and nutrition as
well as education for the youth.
Tanzania was ranked at position 152 out of 187
countries in the 2011 UN Human Development Index and 54 out of 79 on the
2012 Global Hunger Index.
