Monday, Aviol Fleurant, Minister of Planning and External Cooperation, met with the new Director of External Cooperation, Ambassador Jean Marie Archer, in the presence of, among others, of his Director of Cabinet, the Deputy Director General and of advisers and executives technical staff of the Ministry.

At the meeting, the Minister announced an in-depth reform of external cooperation and the establishment of the Institute for Research in International Cooperation and Development, whose mission will be to train officials in external cooperation.

According to the Minister, this reform will promote the country's autonomy, hoping that the directorate of of external cooperation will become the linchpin of national development. Within the framework of this reform, he expressed the wish that there should be two other Directorates-General within the Ministry, one for external cooperation and one for development planning.

For his part, Director Archer, pledged to work on the materialization of this reform project.

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