Gabon's debts represent 40 per cent of GDP and in September Foreign Minister Jean Ping announced plans to increase them with a $3 billion iron ore-backed loan from China's Exim Bank for infrastructure to exploit reserves in Belinga (AC Vol 47 No 14)...
Vol 46 No 19 |
- UNITED NATIONS
Negotiating outcomes The President of the General Assembly (GA) Gabon's Foreign Minister Jean Ping issued the first draft of the summit's 'outcomes document' in June...
His impressive Foreign Minister Jean Ping who in September took the presidency of the United Nations General Assembly is the son of a Chinese trader who married a Gabonese and was himself formerly married to Bongo's eldest daughter Pascaline...
The Foreign Ministers of Gabon Jean Ping and Congo-Brazzaville Rodolphe Adada flew in for talks on 18 March with the General...
Pascaline used to be married to Foreign Minister Jean Ping...
A mediation mission under Gabonese Foreign Minister Jean Ping and the local UN representative Senegalese General Lamine Cissé is trying to patch up the bitter dispute between Bangui and N'djamena...
Last July influenced by Gabon's Foreign Minister Jean Ping he formed the Front Patriotique pour le Dialogue et la Réconciliation Nationale; from Gabon he is trying to bring together Sassou's main opponents in Paris around an arrangement that would put Sassou back in office for five years - provided he reduced his family's influence and shared jobs and profits with other groups...
McAuliffe had organised for Gabonese Foreign Minister Jean Ping to meet President Clinton and National Security Advisor Samuel 'Sandy' Berger when Ping was in Washington for the 16-18 March African Ministerial Summit (AC Vol 40 No 7)...