The fight against international terrorism and South Sudan's humanitarian crisis are two current issues of common concern that will form the subject of emergency resolutions of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly when it meets in Brussels from Monday 18 to Wednesday 20 June.
Co-chaired by Louis Michel MEP (ALDE, Belgium) and Joseph Owona Kono, a parliamentarian from Cameroon, this political forum of the partnership between the countries of Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP), and the European Union, will address other pressing issues such as the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration which is currently being negotiated at the UN.
With a view to adopting resolutions, European and ACP parliamentarians will also debate: - 'post-Cotonou' ACP-EU relations (for which the ACP Council of Ministers has adopted its negotiation mandate, and for which the European Parliament has just decided on its position, while the EU Council, which is almost ready, still needs to resolve the issue linked to the specific demands of Hungary on the 'migration' chapter); - the social and environmental consequences of urbanisation, and the impact of illegal trade in phytosanitary products on ACP countries’ economies.
They will also have an opportunity to question European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica, ACP Council President Kamina Johnson Smith, and Bulgaria's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva. (Original version in French by Aminata Niang)