Rio Africa Participants: ECA Championing Africa

The participants applauded ECA’s effort in improving understanding on sustainable development issues to better prepare the continent's negotiators. The participants are happy that African participants came to Rio quite prepared partly due to the technical assistance ECA provided. Commenting on the level of engagement that Ambassadors and negotiators have shown during daily briefings for the region in Rio, Liberia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Dennis Remongar, said that this reveals a commendable level of preparedness by the continent. He told ECA’s Information and Communication Service (ICS) that in terms of knowledge of the issues, it is clear that African participants came to Rio quite prepared, thanks, in part, to the technical assistance ECA provided.  “But what we have to do henceforth is to try to be more strategic, by way of having our negotiators prepare for different scenarios for each session”, he said. This way, they would be tactically more ready to handle situations for which prior preparations had not been made, he explained. (ECA Press Release)