Luanda - Angolan capital, Luanda, hosts Wednesday the Solemn Opening Session of the 1st Ordinary Plenary Meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OEACP) and the European Union (EU), under the new Samoa Agreement.
The formal session will be chaired by the Angolan Vice-President Esperança da Costa, representing President João Lourenço.
This is the first Ordinary Plenary Meeting of the OEACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly since the new Samoa Agreement was signed.
The Samoa Agreement is a new general framework for relations between the EU and the countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, covering six priority areas, namely democracy and human rights, sustainable economic development and growth, climate change, human and social development, peace, security and migration and mobility.
After the Opening Session there will be two debates, with the intervention of the EU Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, and Fabricio Cardone, professor of political science at the University of Glasgow in the UK.
The themes of the debate are related to the new impetus of the partnership between the OEACP and the European Union.
Tuesday’s meeting of the Bureau of the Joint Parliamentary Assemblies of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific and the European Union.
The bureaus are executive bodies of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly which, in between two Assemblies, take decisions and carry out tasks recommended by the last Plenary.DC/VIC/TED/AMP
