The following is excerpted from an 8 November 2012 report by the World Customs Organization.
At the invitation of the Director General of Customs, Alain Fred Pépin Bonezouï, the Secretary General of the WCO, Kunio Mikuriya, visited Bangui, Central African Republic from 8-9 November 2012 to garner more political support for Customs modernization in the country and in the region.
The Minister of Finance, Albert Besse, welcomed him upon his arrival and expressed his readiness to work with the WCO to further accelerate Customs modernization in the country. Later, the President of the Republic, François Bozizé, received the Secretary General to express his strong commitment to Customs reform, based on the progress made in recent years.
This report is available in its entirety at:
http://www.wcoomd.org/reports/?v=1&lid=1&cid=2&id=416