3 Jun 2014, 17:08
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade will tomorrow meet with Oldemiro Marques Baloi, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Mozambique.
3 June 2014
An economist by training, Minister Baloi has served as Foreign Minsiter since 2008 and was previously Minister for Industry, Trade and Tourism and Vice-Minister for Cooperation.
Chairman of the Committee Pat Breen TD says: “Minister Oldemiro Baloi is in Ireland as part of a high level delegation on the State Visit of President of Mozambique Armando Emilio Guebuza. Tomorrow, the Committee will have an opportunity to engage with the Minister on bilateral relations between the two countries. As a programme country, Irish Aid will be spending €36 million this year which will be aimed at making progress towards achieving the UN's Millennium Development Goals. Specifically, the programmes are aimed at reducing poverty and vulnerability; improving health and learning outcomes and increasing accountability to citizens for the population of Mozambique.
“While Mozambique has a rapidly expanding economy in recent years, it remains one of the world’s poorest countries. The Committee will have an opportunity to engage with Minister Baloi on the policies that are in place to ensure that the dividends from the resource boom anticipated in the coming years will filter through to the most vulnerable in Mozambican society.”
The meeting takes place tomorrow Wednesday 4 June in Committee Room 1, LH 2000 at 3 pm. It can be viewed online here.
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Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade
Deputies:
Pat Breen, Fine Gael (Chairman)
Eric Byrne, Labour
Bernard Durkan, Fine Gael (Vice-Chairman)
Seán Crowe, Sinn Féin
Olivia Mitchell, Fine Gael
Gerald Nash, Labour
Dan Neville, Fine Gael
Brendan Smith, Fianna Fáil
Maureen O’Sullivan, Independent
Senators:
Deirdre Clune, Fine Gael
Mark Daly, Fianna Fáil
Lorraine Higgins, Labour
Michael Mullins, Fine Gael
David Norris, Independent
Jim Walsh, Fianna Fáil