JK joins team to discuss globalization

President Jakaya Kikwete

By The Citizen Reporter (email the author)

Posted Thursday, August 29 2013 at 22:30

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.

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President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete attends the High-level Retreat on "New Ideas for a Fair Globalization in Alpabch, Austria August 30, 2013. Left are members of his delegation, Professor Rwekaza Mukandala, Vice Chancellor of the University of Dar es salaam and Profesor Joseph Semboja, Principal Uongozi Institute.

UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon appointed President Jakaya Kikwete to participate in the retreat as part of the European Forum Alpbach 2013. He is the only African leader who was appointed to attend a three-day retreat this year.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has informed the Forum that the current situation in Syria will force his early return to New York, hindering him from participation in the final event on Saturday, August 31, 2013. Instead UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos will speak on Ban Ki-moon’s behalf.

Together with Austria’s President Heinz Fischer, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and

President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete attends the High-level Retreat on "New Ideas for a Fair Globalization in Alpabch, Austria August 30, 2013. Right is the host and Co-Chairman of the Retreat, Mr Manuel Jose Barroso, President of the European Commission, followed by Ms Valerie Amos, UN Under-Secretary-General of for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, she will discuss the topic “New Ideas for a Fair Globalization: The Role of Politics.

Franz Fischler, President of the European Forum Alpbach, said: “We regret that the Secretary General will be unable to join us in Alpbach but I naturally understand that the current issues being addressed by the UN demand his presence in New York.“

The three-day event commenced on Thursday, with an evening session headed by Valerie Amos and the EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva.

The final day of the European Forum Alpbach 2013 will begin on Saturday with a panel discussion on “New Ideas for a Fair Globalization: What Should Entrepreneurs Do?”.

Prominent panelists will be the respected US American economist Jeffrey Sachs, the Chairman of UN Energy, Kandeh K. Yumkella,

the Chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, the entrepreneur and founder of the Internet platform WAMDA, Habib Haddad, as well as the Chairman

of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis - IIASA, Pavel Kabat.

Following a performance by the Vienna Philharmonic, the Forum will climax with a discussion between José Manuel Barroso, Valerie Amos, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete and Heinz Fischer about the role of the

International community in the revision of post-2015 development goals and new paths to cooperation between the United Nations and the European Union.

President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete walks with Ms Kristalina Georgieva, the European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid, shortly before the start of the High-level Retreat on "New Ideas for a Fair Globalization in Alpabch, Austria August 30, 2013.

President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete walks with Dr Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Earth Institute at the Columbia University, as they head to the meeting hall to attend the High-level Retreat on "New Ideas for a Fair Globalization in Alpabch, Austria August 30, 2013.

President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete with Mr Manuel Jose Barroso, President of the European Commission, at the start of the High-level Retreat on "New Ideas for a Fair Globalization in Alpabch, Austria August 30, 2013.

President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete in a group photo with hosts and participants in the High-level Retreat on "New Ideas for a Fair Globalization in Alpabch, Austria August 30, 2013. To his left is the host and Co-Chairman of the Retreat, Mr Manuel Jose Barroso, President of the European Commission, followed by co-Host Ms Valerie Amos, UN Under-Secretary-General of for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Third right is the Minister for Energy and Mineral Professor Sospeter Muhongo.

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