The other group has a network of people that operates in an area that includes eastern and south eastern Asia, Southern Africa, the eastern coast of Africa and the Horn of Africa.

Eastern Southern Africa regionthe completion of

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa.

Mr. Arnold Nkoma, Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa

This is a shame, because the economic situation elsewhere in Africa has been improving in recent years mostly in Eastern and Southern Africa, where economic integration is proceeding within the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC).

Box 4 Regional integration in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) and EC economic partnership agreements

OFDI in Africa is indirectly supported by policies and by regional integration, one example being the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa.

Country visits for 2005 included Northern and Western Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, Guinea), Northern Europe (Sweden and Finland) and Southern and Eastern Africa (United Republic of Tanzania and South Africa).

Expanded activities with governments in border improvement systems, particularly in Africa, the Caribbean, Central Asia, Eastern Europe Former Soviet Union, South Asia, South eastern Asia and Oceania.

These countries have formed the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA).

The Global Projects Division, the Eastern and Southern Africa Division and the Central Asia, North Africa and Near East Division acquired business totalling 252.8 million.

So for instance, several governments in Africa and Eastern Europe are opening their budgets to the public.

Regional initiatives are under way in Mexico and in Central America, francophone West Africa, Southern Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and South and South East Asia.

We favour an increase in seats for Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Latin American and Caribbean States.

The new measures introduced into the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) would reduce transit costs considerably.

When reviewing applications, requests received from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean are given priority.

According to data of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on related trends, Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and Eastern Europe are the main regions of recruitment of victims of trafficking. Central and Eastern Europe is also a major transit region.

Tangible steps taken in this direction are the slum upgrading initiatives in Eastern Africa, including the Kenya slum upgrading programme.

9. Recalls in this regard the positive experience of the regional and subregional presence in southern, central, eastern and western Africa

In southern and eastern Africa, COMESA has embarked on several regional trade and transport facilitation initiatives, especially as regards transit trade.

Welcoming the appointment by the Secretary General of Special Envoys on HIV AIDS for Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe,

The regions are Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean and Western Europe and other States.

Although there is much progress in implementing programmes for the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in Latin America and Eastern Europe, only 1 2 per cent of HIV infected women in West and Central Africa and 11 per cent in Eastern and Southern Africa benefit from these interventions.

Also welcoming the appointment by the Secretary General of Special Envoys on HIV AIDS for Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe,

For the remainder of 2005, seminars and legal assistance briefing missions are being planned in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and South America.

Of the 51 non reporting States, 11 are in Asia, 29 in Africa, 10 in Latin America and one in Eastern Europe.

Eastern and Southern Africa (E ICEF 2005 P L.23) and draft country programme for Swaziland (E ICEF 2005 P L.30)

The programme portfolios of the regional offices for Eastern Africa and South Asia have seen a consistent increase over the past years.

WFP's share of common services programme costs in 2004 was US 132,000, including its portion of the cost of two common services adviser posts established for the Eastern Southern Africa region and West Africa.

In addition, FAO has started to promote the forestry dialogue in eastern, southern and western parts of Africa in collaboration with subregional organizations.

Trade liberalization and facilitation have advanced in the West African Economic and Monetary Union and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa.

The Nordic countries have provided long term support for regional programmes of agricultural research that have networked experts and institutions in southern, eastern and central Africa, for instance the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa, which manages 16 networks of researchers and extension offices dealing with the major food crops of the region.

Then I have been walking East for 20 years from Eastern Europe to Central Asia through the Caucasus Mountains, Middle East, North Africa, Russia.

The effects of the 26 December 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean were far reaching, arriving as far as the eastern coast of Africa.

Member States of WHO are grouped into six regions relating to Africa, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, the Western Pacific and Europe.

(c) Programme of computer based training in seven Member States in Latin America, six in the Pacific, three in South East Asia, five in Eastern and Southern Africa and four in West Africa developed and delivered

Current mentor assignments include Central Asia, the Philippines, Eastern and Southern Africa, the Pacific Islands and the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada.

(c) Repositioning the public service for the challenges of democratization and economic liberalization (Africa, Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States)

The largest amount was mobilized in Asia ( 8.1 billion), followed by Latin America and the Caribbean ( 1.7 billion), sub Saharan Africa ( 503 million), Western Asia and Northern Africa ( 411 million) and Eastern and Southern Europe ( 212 million).

The pattern remains unchanged from 2003 to 2005 Latin America and the Caribbean is expected to mobilize the second largest amount of funds, followed by sub Saharan Africa, Western Asia and Northern Africa, and Eastern and Southern Europe.

Since 1999, through that joint action, we have taken 14 such actions in Eastern Europe, in Latin America and the Caribbean, in Asia and in Africa.

Initial results of a review in Eastern and Southern Africa show that the approach can achieve wide coverage and lead to improved home care for children.

In addition, FAO also started to promote the forestry dialogue in eastern, southern and western parts of Africa with the authorities ofin collaboration with subregional organizations.

Regional and subregional workshops were conducted for Central Asian and neighbouring countries, Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as for several countries of South Eastern Europe, Latin America, West Africa, Eastern African members of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development and Portuguese speaking countries.

Mozambique is situated in the eastern coast of Africa, possess a territorial extension of 802 000 Km2 and a population of about 17 million inhabitants (INE 1997).