Brussels, 07/11/2001 (Agence Europe) - The Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Forum has been convened for an extraordinary session by its two co-Chairs, Nicole Fontaine, EP President, and Abdelwahad Radi, Speaker of the House of Representatives of Morocco, for a debate in Brussels on 8 November on the situation to have emerged from the 11 September attacks in the United States. The countries represented in this Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Forum, alongside the EP and the national parliaments of EU Member States, are: Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, as well as, as observers, Libya and Mauritania. Romano Prodi, on behalf of the European Commission, Javier Solana, on behalf of the Union Council, as well as the Secretary General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, should take to the floor at the opening session. A final declaration on co-operation in the fight against terrorism, the inter-cultural dialogue and the peace process in the Middle East will be published at the end of the meeting.
The Forum was created in 2000 and its second session held in February 2001. The third will be held in Italy in the first half of 2002.