Marta Mauras 16/04/2001 02:47 PM

To: Moncef Khane/NY/UNO@UNHQ cc: [email protected], [email protected], Kalyani Ravishankar/NY/UNO@UNHQ

Subject: The Abuja Summit

Forwarded by Marta Mauras/NY/UNO on 16/04/2001 02:44 PM

K. Y. Amoako@ECA 16/04/200112:29 PM

Sent by: K. Y. Amoako@ECA

To: Marta Mauras/NY/UNO@UNHQ cc:

Subject: The Abuja Summit

Dear Marta,

I wish to refer to your fax of 12 April informing me of the plans for the Secretary-General's trip to Abuja. I am very pleased to have been asked to be a member of the SG's delegation. However, for reasons that I will explain below, I will be unable to arrive in Abuja before the 25th of April.

As you may know, following the ACC meeting in Nairobi, I travelled to Senegal, France, and The Netherlands for consultations on the Compact and the MAP. The discussions in Dakar and Paris pointed to a potential conflict between the MAP and the Omega Plan of President Wade. Some senior officials in the French Government are supporting the Omega Plan over the MAP. I am currently involved in consultations to ensure that we achieve convergence between the two Plans before the EGA Conference of Finance and Planning Ministers in Algiers early May. To this end, we are revising our Compact document to form the basis for a consensus. I am chairing a final meeting of some African experts and EGA staff on 23 April on the document. I plan to leave Addis for Abuja on the following day, but due to difficult flight connections, will arrive in Abuja on 25 April at 12:15 a.m. on flight B3 206 (from Lagos). My office is in touch with Mr. Kankwenda and the Nigerian Government on my itinerary. From Abuja, I will go directly to Algiers for the Ministerial Conference.

As far as the Abuja Summit is concerned, EGA will be fully represented. Indeed, we have been working very closely with OAU as I indicated in my last note to you. Mrs. L. Ben Barka, Deputy Executive Secretary, and a team of EGA staff will be arriving in Abuja on or about 21 April. Ms. Ben Barka was responsible for the preparation of ADF 2000 and has since been working closely with Peter Piot and collegues in UNAIDS on the follow up to ADF 2000 as well as in the planning of the Abuja Summit. She is very much on top of the issues and can join Peter in briefing the SG as required before my arrival in Abuja.

In any event, I will be sending you, within the next couple of days, a two-three page briefing note for the SG on the Summit.

With best wishes.