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Articles

A commentary on the WTO process (on the Financial Times)
By the ECA Executive Secretary K.Y. Amoako on Tuesday November 23.

World AIDS Day 2004
AIDS in Africa: Planning for a Long War

"The 700 million dollar annual assistance currently offered must be multiplied at least tenfold."
International Helarld Tribune (IHT) Editorial
Co-written by the ECA Executive Secretary K.Y. Amoako and the Secretary-General of OAU, Salim Ahmed Salim, 24 April 2001.

Recent ECA News Stories

Consultation on ECA 2006-2007 work programme fulfils African Ministers' desire, says Amoako,
09 December 2004, By Yinka Adeyemi
Trade and Regional Integration Division News - Nov. 2004
This edition of TRIDNews reprints an editorial by Mr. K.Y. Amoako in the Financial Times newspaper and reports on two meetings held in Tunis in November 2004, Ad-hoc Expert Group Meeting on Market Access and a meeting of African trade negotiators and officials.
Employment Key to Poverty Reduction says Amoako
By Cristina Muller, ECA, 01 October 2004.
In a message to African heads of state ECA’s Executive Secretary KY Amoako said that employment creation is key to resolving the issue of poverty reduction in Africa, and part of the path towards achieving Millennium Development Goals.

Press Releases

ECA Press Release 11/2004
Africa Needs to Remove Obstacles to Trade, Says Amoako .
ECA Press Release No. 12/2004
Amoako Calls for Action on African Unemployment, Poverty.
ECA Press Release 11/2004
Africa Needs to Remove Obstacles to Trade, Says Amoako .
ECA Press Release No. 03/2004
Blair Africa Commission 'A Chance to Move from Rhetoric to Action'
(03.04.2004)
ECA Press Release No. 02/2004
Amoako to Deliver Andrew Young Lecture in Washington, DC.
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Full text of the Lecture: 'Good governance and development in Africa: a critical nexus.'
ECA Press Release 01/2004
UK Development Minister to Discuss Enhanced Partnership with ECA.
(02.09.2004)
ECA Press Release No. 10/2003
Leading Africans Honoured with University Doctorates.
- Citation for Mr. K.Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary of the ECA, delivered by Andreas Eshete, President of the Addis Ababa University: Read
- Statement by Mr. K.Y. Amoako at the occasion of the Award ceremony: Read
(07.28.2003)
ECA Press Release No. 07/2003
Amoako Proposes New Debt Initiative, Manuel Questions IMF Reform.

(06.01.2003)
Media Advisory 03/2003
Amoako to Meet President Kufuor, Senior Officials on Visit to Ghana.
(05.22.2003)
Press Release: World Aids Day Targets Stigma and Discrimination.
  "AIDS is central to Africa’s development. We must now, as an urgent priority, raise the issues of HIV/AIDS and its governance, development, and peace and security implications to the top of the agenda, and identify specific policy measures that can be taken by governments, international organizations and civil society to respond to these multi-dimensional challenges,” K.Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA.)
Press Release No. 13/2002
Amoako to Meet President Mkapa, Senior Officials on Visit to Tanzania 
(09.10.2002)
ECA Press Release No. 13/ 2001
G8 Must Move to Reverse the Slide in Aid to Africa - Amoako
Click here for the Millennium Lecture Series Page
(12.17.2001)
Press Release No. 12/2001
Amoako to deliver Africa address at Downing Street
(12.14.2001)
Press Release No. 10/2000
Amoako Proposes New Global Compact with Africa
Addis Ababa, 21 November 2000