(ECO) AFRICAN TRADING BLOC TO SIGN TRADE DEALS IN TURKEY.ISTANBUL, Jun 27, 2009 (TUR tur: see ibex. ) -- Officials of eight African countries, which are members of Africa's largest trade bloc A trade bloc is a large free trade area formed by one or more tax, tariff and trade agreements. Typically trade pacts that define such a bloc specify formal adjudication bodies, e.g. NAFTA trade panels. , Comesa, are due to Turkey to sign trade deals, a business organization said on Friday. The delegation of Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, is a preferential trading area with twenty member states stretching from Libya to Zimbabwe. COMESA formed in December 1994, replacing a Preferential Trade Area which had existed since 1981. (Comesa) will also hold talks with Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists of Turkey (TUSKON), the business organization said. Kenyan Trade Minister Amos Kimunya will head the African delegation of eight countries including Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, Mauritius, Swaziland and the Seychelles. 19 African countries are members of Comesa that stretches from Swaziland in the south and Libya in the north. (T-A) (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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