IOC MINISTERS ENDORSE ST. ANGE AS THEIR CHOICE CANDIDATE FOR UNWTO’S TOP JOB
(Posted 01st April 2017)
Last month did Ministers from Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion and Seychelles sitting as the Indian Ocean Commission endorse the Seychelles bid for Secretary General of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO).
Mauritius, the seat of the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) confirmed that decision 23 d) of the Minister’s Meeting of the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) states that the Commission notes with satisfaction the bid by the Republic of Seychelles to head the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) as Secretary General and request the Commission’s Secretary General to followup as necessary and to do the needful.
This endorsement is good news for Alain St.Ange, the Seychelles Candidate for the position of Secretary General of the UNWTO. The Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands where Tourism Ministers of the islands of the Indian Ocean sit have already endorsed the Seychelles Candidate, but now it was the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the Islands of the Indian Ocean (Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion and Seychelles) coming together to wish Seychelles well with its bid.
To be noted is that the Islamic Republic of the Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles are all part of the African Union (AU) and Reunion is the French Island in the Indian Ocean. The islands are also members of the Vanilla Island group, a tourism marketing cooperative organization based on Reunion Island which St. Ange helped to form and develop into a strong regional marketing force for travel to and among these islands.
Alain St.Ange has said that he is thankful to the Governments of Islands of the IOC and salutes the Foreign Affairs Departments of the islands for standing with Seychelles to be SG of the UNWTO.
