83rd Ordinary Session: ECOWAS Ministers Focus On Financing Action-Plan To Combat Terrorism - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 18, 2019
The Financing Action Plans to combat terrorism destroyingthe Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS Member States has beenlisted as top agenda among other matters to be discussed during the 83rdOrdinary Session of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers.
The Council’s Chairman and Niger Republic’s Minister ofForeign Affairs, Kalla Ankouroa made this known in Abuja, at the opening of theMinisterial Session.
He said the Council of Ministers would be considering thefinancing of the action plan for counter terrorism in line with the decisionsof the extraordinary ordinary summit of Heads of States. He noted that dealingwith the new threats to security posed by terrorism was a matter of urgency,which requires the commitment of Member States.
Also speaking, Nigeria’s Minister of State for ForeignAffairs, Zubairu Dada said the end of the year Statutory ECOWAS Council ofMinisters serves as a platform where thematic issues of the community aredeliberated upon.
In his remarks, President, ECOWAS Commission, Jean-ClaudeBrou, said that the Ordinary Session of Ministers creates an opportunity forthe Commission to present the state of the Community to representatives ofMembers States.