COURTESY CALL ON H. E AMBASSADOR BY CHEIKH MAMADOU ABIBOULAYE DIEYE, MAYOR OF SAINT-LOUIS, 19 NOVEMBER 2009

On Thursday, 19 November 2009 a delegation from the Mayor’s office of the City of St. Louis, Senegal paid a courtesy call on H. E. Ambassador Dato’ Jamaiyah M. Yusof.  The delegation was led by H. E. Cheikh Mamadou Abiboulaye Dieye, Mayor of St. Louis.  He was accompanied by Mr. Amadou DIAW, President of International School of Management and the Chairman of the Executive Committee for the celebration of the 350 years of Saint-Louis, Mr. Abdoulaye DIANE, Director of International Relations of International School of Management and Madame Ba Nafissatou Diagne, Assistant to the Mayor of Saint-Louis.

The courtesy call lasted for about 40 minutes where H. E. Ambassador and H. E Mayor of St. Louis had fruitful discussions on various issues of common interests.  The Mayor also shared his vision of turning the historic City of St. Louis into a modern, vibrant city through his “St. Louis Vision 2020”, adopted from Malaysia’s vision 2020.

During the course of the discussion, H. E Mayor of St. Louis extended the invitation for H. E. Ambassador to attend the opening ceremony of the 350^th Anniversary Celebration of the City of St. Louis.  The Mayor also extended invitation for the Embassy to participate in the year long celebration by organizing a ‘Malaysian Week” which will be used to showcase Malaysia’s achievements in development, economy and tourism. 

A gathering was organized at the official Residence (Rumah Malaysia) on Thursday, 19 November 2009.  The gathering saw 14 members of the Malaysian Alumni, whose members are Senegalese nationals that attended Malaysian Technical Cooperation programme (MTCP) courses in Malaysia as well as Senegalese that have studied in Malaysia.

The gathering was aimed to get various views and feedbacks on ways that could be explored to promote Malaysia in Senegal as well as to promote cooperations in various fields between Malaysia and Senegal.