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Your Excellency, Mr. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Turkey;

Your Excellency, Mr. Christophe Lutundula Apala Pen Apala, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Chairperson of the AU Executive Council;

Your ExcellenciesMinisters and Heads of Delegation;

AU Commissioners, Representatives of AU organs and Regional Economic Communities;

We are on a supreme and urgent mission to develop Africa, collectively, inclusively and sustainably.

This requires boldness and strategic management skills of our public affairs over and above our respective professional training.

The issue of strategic management will in this respect feature prominently in my six points that are in my closing remarks.

Opening up Africa’s borders to travel will drive investment and an economic rebound, according to the authors of the 2021 Africa Visa Openness Index.