Brussels, 11/02/2000 (Agence Europe) - The 30th session of the ACP/EU Joint Assembly will take place in Abuja (Nigeria) from 20 to 23 March. On that occasion, the results of the negotiations over the new ACP-EU Partnership Agreement will be discussed. The General Rapporteur, Abednego Seisa Nqojane (Lesotho) will make an introductory speech on globalization and the ways and means enabling the ACP Group and the EU to react together faced with the advantages and inconveniences it comprises. The agenda also provides for:
- A hearing on regional cooperation in West Africa with the participation of the Secretaries General of CEDEAO and UEMOA
- Address by the Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika as President-in-Office of the Organisation of African Unity;
- Voting on the report by Britain's Glenys Kinnock on the future of ACP-EU relations;
- Examination (debate and vote on a resolution) of the situation in different countries will, notably, concern Angola, Guinea Bissau, the region of the Great Lakes of Africa, Somalia, Sudan, the Solomon Islands, as well as this time in an EU Member State, Austria. The situation in the Ivory Coast, Haiti, Ethiopia and Eritrea will be discussed on he basis of a briefs by missions conducted on the round, notably by the Co-Chairs of the Assembly;
- The re-admission clause of illegal foreigners, in the new Partnership Agreement, will also be the subject of a debate and vote.
