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The Mauritius Yellow Pages News - Indian Ocean Commission To Meet In Antananarivo |
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Indian Ocean Commission To Meet In Antananarivo |
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Posted to the web February 22, 2001 February 22, 2001 - Port-Louis, Mauritius, Indian Ocean Mauritius has been elected to chair, for the next one year, the Indian Ocean Commission at its council of ministers' meeting being held in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The new chairman of the IOC, Mauritian Foreign affairs minister Anil Gayan, said Mauritius would give a new orientation to regional co-operation during his tenure. "There should be an Indian oceanic identity, a unique passport and no need for visas for people to move freely from one country to another in the region," Gayan said. He emphasised that partnership should be based on the principles of equity and equilibrium as regards regional co- operation and an equal redistribution of projects for countries of the region. Gayan estimated that the opening of countries of the region to the regional economy was inevitable in the face of globalisation. However, the new chairman criticised the IOC for not having evolved into a sense of the spirit of the charter of the organisation set up 17 years ago in Seychelles. The commission groups Mauritius, Madagascar, Seychelles, Reunion Island and the Comoro Islands.
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