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Opening remarks

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“He further commended
CASSOA’s success as the second
best performing RSOO as its role
in the region is effective”

Barry Kashambo, ICAO Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, (Centre)

Barry Kashambo, ICAO Regional Director for Eastern safety concern, but called for the region and CASSOA to
and Southern Africa, expressed his gratitude to the support South Sudan and Burundi to meet ICAOs
CASSOA secretariat for organizing the 4th Symposium, standards. He reiterated his call that CASSOA should be
noting his delight especially as a former Executive funded thought a clear funding mechanism to ensure
Director of CASSOA. that the achievements made are sustainable as ICAO
supports the Ezelwini Ministerial Declaration on the
He called for progressive action to ensure regional establishment of sustainable RSOOs in Africa.
safety is attained in the AFI region and under ICAO’s ‘No
Country Left Behind’ initiative’. He indicated that the He noted that there has been substantial improvement
challenge of lack of qualified personnel required a in aviation security and facilitation in the EAC region
collaborative approach from all aviation stakeholders. with the profile expected to increase with the upcoming
He indicated that ICAO supports the EACs harmoniza- ICAO audits in Rwanda and Burundi in the second quar-
tion role as performed by CASSOA. ter of 2018 and commended the EAC region with the
highest visa openness index in Africa. He pledged that
He further commended CASSOA’s success as the second ICAO would continue to work with CASSOA to forge a
best performing RSOO as its role in the region is effec- robust aviation safety and security regime with a collab-
tive as there is currently no EAC state with a significant orative approach.

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Charles Njoroge, Deputy Secretary General in Charge He indicated that the EAC has prioritized the establish-
of Political Federation, EAC Secretariat, indicated that ment of the Unified Flight Information Region(UFIR)
the EAC is the leading regional economic community in over the region and highlighted that the African Union
Civil Aviation due to CASSOA’s aviation security and commended the EAC UFIR as a replicable model
safety oversight capacity. He noted that the high levels towards the establishment of the single harmonized
of effective implementation of ICAOs standards and African Airspace.
recommended practices is due to CASSOA’S initiatives
and noted that the agency needs to work closely with He further noted that the full liberalization of the EAC
states where the effective implementation if below and was further assisted by development of a frame-
60%. work of cooperation in aircraft accident and incident

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