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Nairobi, Kenya, 02 October 2018: The African Union Ministers responsible for Tourism endorsed the crucial role of the Tourism sector in the attainment of the main goals of the AU Agenda 2063 of continental integration, prosperity and peace. The Ministers affirmed their commitment to develop sustainable Tourism through the adoption of a sound continental Tourism Strategy framework with a view to enhancing the competitiveness of the sector and the establishment of an African brand.

New York, 28 September 2018: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, held a meeting with Mr. Horst Koehler, the Personal Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for Western Sahara, in New York, yesterday 27 September 2018, on the margins of the 73rd United Nations General Assembly. They exchanged views on how best to advance the resolution of the conflict of Western Sahara.

1. The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, met today in New York in the margins of the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly. 

2. They discussed issues central to the strategic partnership between the African Union and the United Nations, in line with the two joint frameworks they signed in 2017 and 2018 on peace, security and development.