ACS-EU parlementaire vergadering: Grote Merengebied en Comoren-archipel (en)

The ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) will meet in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) from 25 to 27 November to debate security in the Great Lakes region and the situation in the Comoros archipelago. The plenary debates will be precededover the weekend by meetings of the JPA standing committees and the womens’ forum.

The debates will also focus on the social and environmental impacts of pastoralism on ACP countries, South-South cooperation and “triangular” cooperation (South-South cooperation with the support of a county in the North) and cooperation between the African Union and the European Union. Members of the European Parliament and their counterparts from national parliaments of African, Caribbean and Pacific states are also set to discuss the fight against female genital mutilation.

The formal sitting of the 26th ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly will be opened by its Co-Presidents Louis Michel i (ALDE, BE) and Joyce Laboso (Kenya), in the presence of the Speaker of the House of People's Representatives of Ethiopia Abadula Gemeda Dago and the Prime Minister of Ethiopia Hailemariyam Desalegn.

Media information

Press conference with the Co-Presidents is scheduled for Wednesday, 27 November after the votes (at about 17.00 local time) in the plenary hall.

Venue

The United Nations Conference Centre

Menelik II Ave, Addis Ababa - Ethiopia

Note to editors:

The parliamentarians of the 78 African, Caribbean and Pacific states meet their European Parliament counterparts in plenary session twice a year. The Joint Parliamentary Assembly meets alternately in an ACP country and in an EU Member State, traditionally the one holding the rotating EU presidency.