Rabat, March 21 -- The inaugural session of the 38th Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development's Expert Committee (COM2019) elected Morocco, by acclamation, to chair a bureau of the 52nd session of the UN Economic Commission for Africa's (UNECA) COM2019, meeting in Marrakech this week.

The bureau includes a first vice president from Ethiopia, a second vice president from Zambia, a third vice president from Togo, and a rapporteur from Equatorial Guinea.

Morocco welcomed the decision made on Wednesday, March 19. "The election of Morocco as Chair of this Bureau is an honour and a responsibility," Morocco's Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance Zouhair Chorfi said in a press release.

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