India: the staunch African partner
Today resource rich African nations have realized & said that the India is our age-old-staunch partner! That may be learned from China or else makes no difference, ground reality is that India could manage a ‘state-led-delegation’ to deal Africa.
That was April 26-27, 2007-the GJEPC organized the second international diamond conference, ‘Mines to Market’. I derived my conclusion that an aggressive attempt has been taken by the GJ industry to source rough directly form mines. Equally, Jairam Ramesh, union state minister for commerce said that India is thinking to propose umbrella partnership to set long term relations with Africa!
Here notable view is a wish to propose an umbrella partnership or to manage a ‘State-led-delegation!’ Since long not only the GJ industry but also other industries were trying to tap natural resources that could be a raw material for India from African nations. And such sourcing was not effective because any single industry could not manage African nation’s priority that could be possible only proposing them an umbrella partnership.
Defacto, that makes no difference that your priority is to source rough or cashew or uranium or oil…from African nations unless India could look in to the list of African priorities! Indeed such huge work could be a subject of various ministry & officials, who could attend a delegation at a time! I think the Union has played well & attended African nations at very right time!
I think, Jairam-who said and stayed firm! Collectively India started a process to focus Africa! This process ended just now by opening a new episode in the Africa-India relationship in the new millennium with the help of, ‘India Africa Conclave-March 19 & 21, 2008, Jairam Ramesh led high powered delegation to Namibia & Angola-March 26-01 April, 2008, International conference get organized ‘Africa-India partnership in the 21st century’-April 2-3, & India hosted Africa on April 8-9, 2008 at India-Africa Forum Summit!’
These united efforts could bring out African priorities. Pan-African priorities are Agriculture, it’s productivity, crop diversification, water management, food security, food management, HRD related developments, Infrastructure, Telecommunication, e’tech-n-IT solutions, Health -Science & technical developments, industrial growth…! They speak much about ‘economic growth’ than any beneficiation because as I always say to Afro nations that the tool of beneficiation is not viable enough that may mislead to go away from National Vision!
At the end of the day India addressed totally 34 Afro-nations and rocked over one & half dozen nations. Successfully India could inked more than 150 projects that worth US$ 11bn with African nations. Above & all, also inked Angola, DRC & Namibia
Now, let’s be a resources to each other & to source own priorities by remaining the staunch partners for a long!
That was April 26-27, 2007-the GJEPC organized the second international diamond conference, ‘Mines to Market’. I derived my conclusion that an aggressive attempt has been taken by the GJ industry to source rough directly form mines. Equally, Jairam Ramesh, union state minister for commerce said that India is thinking to propose umbrella partnership to set long term relations with Africa!
Here notable view is a wish to propose an umbrella partnership or to manage a ‘State-led-delegation!’ Since long not only the GJ industry but also other industries were trying to tap natural resources that could be a raw material for India from African nations. And such sourcing was not effective because any single industry could not manage African nation’s priority that could be possible only proposing them an umbrella partnership.
Defacto, that makes no difference that your priority is to source rough or cashew or uranium or oil…from African nations unless India could look in to the list of African priorities! Indeed such huge work could be a subject of various ministry & officials, who could attend a delegation at a time! I think the Union has played well & attended African nations at very right time!
I think, Jairam-who said and stayed firm! Collectively India started a process to focus Africa! This process ended just now by opening a new episode in the Africa-India relationship in the new millennium with the help of, ‘India Africa Conclave-March 19 & 21, 2008, Jairam Ramesh led high powered delegation to Namibia & Angola-March 26-01 April, 2008, International conference get organized ‘Africa-India partnership in the 21st century’-April 2-3, & India hosted Africa on April 8-9, 2008 at India-Africa Forum Summit!’
These united efforts could bring out African priorities. Pan-African priorities are Agriculture, it’s productivity, crop diversification, water management, food security, food management, HRD related developments, Infrastructure, Telecommunication, e’tech-n-IT solutions, Health -Science & technical developments, industrial growth…! They speak much about ‘economic growth’ than any beneficiation because as I always say to Afro nations that the tool of beneficiation is not viable enough that may mislead to go away from National Vision!
At the end of the day India addressed totally 34 Afro-nations and rocked over one & half dozen nations. Successfully India could inked more than 150 projects that worth US$ 11bn with African nations. Above & all, also inked Angola, DRC & Namibia
Now, let’s be a resources to each other & to source own priorities by remaining the staunch partners for a long!
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