This is all in the spirit of the national strategy of “Maurice Ile Durable”, the policy for securing sustainable development, announced last year by our Prime Minister at the United Nations General Assembly. Mauritius, with many friends from Africa, will be asserting our case at the Copenhagen meeting on climate change.
Allow me, fellow-Governors, to place on record our gratitude to the Bureau of the COMESA Committee of Governors of Central Banks and to the Secretary-General of COMESA for their support to Mauritius as we offered to host one of the two new African Technical Assistance Centres which the IMF is establishing in Africa.