EAC summit to sign Customs Union Protocol in Tanzania

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EAC summit to sign Customs Union Protocol in Tanzania

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The long-postponed Protocol for the Establishment of the East African Community (EAC) Customs Union will be signed in Arusha, Tanzania during the Fifth EAC Summit, the EAC Information Office announced in a statement Monday.

According to the statement, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda, President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya and President Benjamin William Mkapa of Tanzania will have closed session to finalize theprotocol on Monday. The presidents will attend the signing ceremony Tuesday and launch the EAC Essay Competition.

The three heads of state will also attend a memorandum of understanding signing by the three EAC capital mayors. The capitals are Tanzania's Dar es Salaam, Uganda's Kampala and Kenya's Nairobi.

The EAC also invites Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye andRwandan Prime Minister Bernard Makuza to the ceremony.

The protocol was scheduled to be signed in mid-December, 2003. But as the EAC countries were unable to achieve agreement on certain details, the signing was rescheduled to February, and finally to March 2.

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