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(Chaired by Mme Paulette Missambo, Minister of Public Health and Population of the Gabonese Republic)

Letter dated 15 February 1994 (S 1994 180) from the representative of Gabon addressed to the Secretary General, transmitting the text of a communiqué issued on 4 February 1994 by the Gabonese Government.

Another devaluation of the CFA franc today might deflate France s debts to the franc zone and boost its African based export industries, but it would worsen the franc zone countries miseries.

Even Switzerland is intervening to weaken the franc.

Since 1945, it has been part of the CFP franc.

History The franc became the currency of Burundi in 1916, when Belgium occupied the former Germany colony and replaced the German East African rupie with the Belgian Congo franc.

History The franc became the currency of Rwanda in 1916, when Belgium occupied the previously German colony and the Belgian Congo franc replaced the German East African rupie.

But the franc zone countries did not fare nearly so well.

Now he considers it the best currency in the world.

The franc zone s plight is being compounded by distorted and dysfunctional economic and monetary policies.

Swiss Francs by Flickr user Jim (CC BY NC SA 2.0).

In 1999, the Euro was introduced to replace the French franc.

Gabon has three karst areas where there are hundreds of caves located in the dolomite and limestone rocks.

Approximately 12 of the population of Gabon practice Islam, of which 80 to 90 percent are foreigners.

In this context, on 12 January 1994, there was a 50 per cent devaluation of the parity of the currency of the African States of the franc zone compared to that of the French franc.

The franc zone is, in fact, an appendage of the French economy.

Introducing the item, the secretariat noted that no expert from Gabon had yet been designated for membership on the Committee.

More appalling is the fact that France guarantees the CFA franc s free convertibility into hard currency, originally on the condition that all 15 Franc Zone countries surrender 100 of their foreign reserves to the French Treasury.

This gap should encourage the franc zone s member countries to reject their relationship with France.

The CFA franc issued by two sub regional central banks (BCEAO and BEAC) are not interchangeable.

It was the largest plunge of the franc ever against the euro.

On January 1, 2008, the franc was valued at 1,129.40 per US dollar.

It is responsible for Swiss monetary policy and for issuing Swiss franc banknotes.

The Government of Gabon recognized women's central role in the development of peace.

Despite this, a French uranium company based in Gabon may have sold Israel uranium in 1965.

(d) The delegation of Gabon should prepare a draft on the organization of a temporary general staff committee for crisis management in the subregion.

From the end of World War II until the adoption of the euro, France devalued its own franc 14 times in order to bolster competiveness and exports, with the CFA franc devalued along with it each time.

In 1910 Gabon became one of the four territories of French Equatorial Africa, a federation that survived until 1959.

The second way implies a thorough overhaul of the system. This would entail pegging the CFA franc not only to the euro, but also to a basket of other currencies, abolishing the fixed exchange rate and the CFA franc s convertibility, and fast tracking economic integration.

Only during the period when Burundi used the Belgian Congo franc were centime coins issued.

My country regrets the fact that the steps to accompany the devaluation have not been entirely honoured.

The economic situation was further aggravated for the CFA countries since their de linking from the French franc.

In Gabon, women currently participated in the Government, Parliament, political parties and public and private enterprises.

France may not like it, but the best interests of the franc zone s citizens should come first.

But France s woes are also being felt far beyond its borders, sparking rumors of a possible devaluation of the CFA franc, the common currency of the franc zone, which comprises 14 African countries and the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean.

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