The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany has appointed His Excellency Klaus-Peter Brandes, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United Republic of Tanzania as its Special Representative to the East African Community.

East African Community Secretariat, Arusha, 13 October 2011: The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany has appointed His Excellency Klaus-Peter Brandes, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United Republic of Tanzania as its Special Representative to the East African Community.

In his September 27 letter to the Secretary General of the East African Community, the Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Guido Westerwelle affirms that H.E. Klaus-Peter Brandes will serve as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany in the exercise of his duties with regard to the EAC.

While presenting his accreditation letter to EAC Secretary General Amb. Dr. Richard Sezibera, Amb. Klaus-Peter Brandes said his government attaches great importance to the East African integration process and to the prosperity of its citizens. He said by establishing this formal relations with the EAC, the Federal Republic of Germany wishes to further strengthen the long-standing and deep relationship it maintains with the East African Community.

Amb. Sezibera hailed the existing cordial relations between the Germany Government and the EAC Partner States. He said Germany was supporting so many projects both at Partner State and the Community levels.

The German envoy also handed the EAC Secretary General a book entitled Processes of Legal Integration in the East African Community edited by Kennedy Gastorn, Harald Sippel and Ulrike Wanitzek a publication of the Tanzanian-German Centre for Postgraduate Studies in Law at the University of Dar es Salaam School of Law in cooperation with the University of Bayreuth.

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