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ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)

14 - 19 February 2004




Saturday 14 February 2004

10.00 hrsMeeting of the Committee on Economic Development, Finance and Trade (Room CR 1)
14.30 hrs Meetings of the Committee on Political Affairs (Room CR 1) and the Committee on Social Affairs and the Environment (Room CR 2)
17.30 hrs Women's Forum (Room CR 1)
Monday 16 February 2004

08.00 hrs Conciliation meetings on urgent motions for resolutions

10.30 hrs Formal inauguration of the seventh session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (African Union Headquarters)

Speakers:
(TBC)Alpha Oumar Konaré, President of the Commission of the African Union

Ramdien Sardjoe, Co-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

Kingsley Yeboah Amoako, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)

Glenys Kinnock, Co-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

15.00 hrs Sitting of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly (United Nations Conference Centre)
  • Report by Harlem Désir (PES, F) and Mrs Hay-Webster (Jamaica) - Economic Partnership Agreements, Committee on Economic Development, Finance and Trade
  • Statements by: Pascal Lamy, EC Commissioner with responsibility for external trade and Jayen Cuttaree, Minister for Industry and International Trade (Mauritius)

    Urgent topic 1: Cotton and other basic products: problems encountered by ACP countries

Tuesday 17 February 2004

09.00 hrs Statement by Poul Nielson, EC Commissioner with responsibility for development and humanitarian aid

Question time to the Commission

Urgent topic 2: Damage caused by cyclones in the Pacific and the need for a rapid response to natural disasters

15.00 hrs Statement by Tom Kitt, Minister for Development and Human Rights (Ireland), President-in-Office of the EU

Council Statement by Pierre Moussa, Minister for the Plan, Regional Planning and Economic Integration (Republic of the Congo), President-in-Office of the ACP Council

Question time to the Council

Report by Mr Klutse (Togo) and Phillipe Morillon (EPP-ED, France) - Conflict prevention and resolution and the establishment of a lasting peaceCommittee on Political Affairs

Statement by Said Djinnit, African Union Commissioner for peace, security and political affairs


Wednesday 18 February 2004

09.00 hrs Workshops- Food security in the Horn of Africa- Health and Eduction in the Horn of Africa- Development of the private sector in Ethiopia

15.00 hrs Report by Mr Betkou (Madagascar) and Karin Scheele (PES, A) - Poverty diseases and reproductive health in ACP countries in the context of the ninth EDF

Committee on Social Affairs and the Environment

Statements by (TBC): Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund and Steven W. Sinding, Director-General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation

Regional integration in Africa in the context of the African Union and NEPAD: Statements by high level representatives of the African Union


Thursday 19 February 2004

09.00 hrs Report on the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (Geneva, 10-12 December 2003): Statement by Karin Juncker (PES, D) Summary of workshops

Report on the activities of the economic and social partners, statement by Sukhdev Sharma, member of the European Economic and Social Committee, on monitoring the implementation of the Cotonou Agreement from the point of view of the economic and social partners

Vote on the reports of the three committees

Vote on urgent motions for resolutions

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