Tag: Vice President Makhtar Diop

  Remarks at the IMF/World Bank 2012 Annual Meetings Event: The Energy Challenge of Africa Good afternoon everybody. I’m very grateful and thankful to the Japanese authorities for organizing this event jointly with the World Bank and for extending their hospitality to all of us here. I would like, in particular, to thank Minister Gemba, who took time out of his very busy schedule to come and open this event. I would like to thank Mayor Hayashi for her presence here, and I look forward to visiting her in Yokohama. I would like to thank JICA―the Japan International Cooperation Agency― the Ministry of Finance and the Minster of Foreign Affairs for organizing this event. I have some remarks, but I just want to, before I go on to my remarks, comment a little bit and react a littl...