2023-05-20 08:52:59
Princess Astrid is taking a delegation of around 360 people to Senegal from May 21 to 25 for the first economic mission of the year. The trip was originally planned for 2020, but had to be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
As usual, the mission is organized by the regional foreign trade agencies (Hub.brussels, Awex and Fit), the FPS Foreign Affairs and the Federal Agency for Foreign Trade. In addition to more than 150 companies from various sectors, the delegation will include many representatives of academic institutions and some political leaders. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hadja Lahbib, the Walloon Vice-President and Minister for the Economy, Willy Borsus, as well as the Brussels Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, Pascal Smet, will form the political delegation for the trip, which will take place of Flemish representative.
The program
The meetings, which will take place mainly in Dakar, but also in the new Senegalese city designed to relieve congestion in the capital, Diamniadio, will be of an economic, but also cultural and political nature. Thirty Belgian-Senegalese partnerships should be signed, including one concerning the rapprochement of Cheick-Anta Diop University with the G3 of La Francophonie, i.e. the universities of Montreal, Geneva and the ULB.
The official delegation will meet the Prime Minister of the country of Teranga, Amadou Ba, and President Macky Sall, while Hadja Lahbib will also meet with his Senegalese counterpart, Aïssata Tall Sall. After an information session on Sunday evening, the mission will begin concretely on Monday 22. During the stay, in addition to the rigorous seminars and visits to the sites of Belgian companies active in the region, a particular focus will be female entrepreneurship.
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