PM Netanyahu meets ECOWAS President de Souza 28 July 2016
Israeli Missions Around The World MFA Press Room 2016 PM Netanyahu meets ECOWAS President de Souza 28 July 2016
  • 2016

PM Netanyahu meets with ECOWAS President de Souza in Jerusalem

  • 7/28/2016
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    The meeting focused on a range of subjects, specifically on an invitation for ministers of agriculture of ECOWAS member states to visit Israel and an invitation to PM Netanyahu to address an upcoming summit meeting of ECOWAS.
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    PM Netanyahu with ECOWAS President Marcel Alain de Souza in Jerusalem PM Netanyahu with ECOWAS President Marcel Alain de Souza in Jerusalem : GPO/Kobi Gideon
     
     
    ​Continuing his diplomatic momentum in Africa and following his visit to four African nations in early July, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Binyamin Netanyahu, met today (Thursday, 28th July 2016) with the President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Marcel Alain de Souza.

    This is the first meeting between the Prime Minister and the President of this important organization of fifteen member states, which in addition to economic cooperation  also deals with regional security issues.

    The meeting focused on a range of subjects and specifically an invitation for ministers of agriculture of the member states of ECOWAS to visit Israel this year and an invitation to the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs to address an upcoming summit meeting of ECOWAS.