Describing the deliberations as productive and useful, Shri Ajay Shanker said it had helped create a critical mass of interaction and personal relationships which needed to be built upon to carry the process of south-south cooperation forward. He also underlined the need and space for creative industrial policies and programmes, which would lead to results.
Shri Prasad stressed the need for developing on the momentum generated by the event through country-specific action plans and monitoring of the progress.
Mr. Scholtes spoke of the interest being expressed by developing countries to share best practices for industrial development and said that UNIDO was setting up a global network of south-south centres, which included the UCSSIC set up earlier this year in India, as well as the centre proposed to be established soon in China. He said the Conference marked the first step in the road to stronger trade and industrial relations with Africa, brokered by UNIDO.
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