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| 30.12.2006 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 330/3 |
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30.12.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 330/3

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MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF TUESDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 2006

MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF TUESDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 2006

(2006/C 330/02)

(The sitting opened at 9.15 a.m.)

(The sitting opened at 9.15 a.m.)

IN THE CHAIR: Mrs KINNOCK

Co-President

Co-President

1.   Substitutes

The Co-President announced the following substitutes: Badia i Cuchet (for Ferreira), Budreikaitė (for Kułakowksi), Bushill-Matthews (for Coelho), Evans (for Dobolyi), Hegyi (for Van Lancker), Klass (for Langendries), Lavarra (for Arif), Morgantini (for Wurtz), Myller (for Rosati), Posdorf (for Ribeiro e Castro), Seeber (for Schröder) and Zaleski (for Wijkman).

2.   Debate on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (without resolution)

Speakers: Berend, Sylla (Mali), Evans, Akpovi (Benin) and Van Hecke.

IN THE CHAIR: Mr RADEMBINO-CONIQUET

Co-President

Co-President

Speakers: Aubert, Nguema Owono (Equatorial Guinea), Deva, Deng (Sudan), Gomes, Hall, de Sousa (Angola) and Zaleski.

Mr Michel, Member of the Commission, responded to the points raised in the debate.

Decision: to write letters to President Kabila and to Mr Bemba in the name of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly asking that the results of the elections be respected.

IN THE CHAIR: Mrs KINNOCK

Co-President

Co-President

3.   Report by Mr L. Boyce Sebetela (Botswana) and Mr Hans-Peter Mayer, on behalf of the Committee on Economic Development, Finance and Trade, on the impact of tourism on the ACP countries' development (ACP-EU/3871/06/fin.)

Mr Sebetela (Botswana) and Mr Mayer presented their report.

Mr Lynch, Minister of Tourism and International Transport of Barbados, addressed the Assembly.

Speakers: Berend, Jiménez (Dominican Republic), Cornillet, Deerpalsing (Mauritius), Schlyter, Conteh (Sierra Leone), Martens, Novak, Schnellhardt, McAvan, Seeber and Zaleski.

Mr Baum and Mr Martens (Commission) and Mr Lynch replied to the issues raised in the debate.

Mr Sebetela (Botswana) and Mr Mayer wound up the debate.

The Co-President called the representative of Eritrea to address the Assembly on the situation in the East African region of the ACP Group, as he had been inadvertently left out of the speakers' list when the debate took place on the previous day. Unfortunately he was not in the room.

4.   Report of the economic and social partners

Mr Dantin, President of the ACP-EU Follow-up Committee, made his presentation.

(The sitting adjourned at 11.45 a.m. and resumed at 2.35 p.m.)

(The sitting adjourned at 11.45 a.m. and resumed at 2.35 p.m.)

5.   Address by Mr Mark Malloch Brown, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, on the work and role of the United Nations in the 21st century

Mr Malloch Brown made his statement

Speakers: Kinnock, Martínez Martínez, Straker (St Vincent and the Grenadines), Deva, Agnoletto, Bowis, Gomes, Conteh (Sierra Leone), Evans, Sebetela (Botswana) Seeber and Deng (Sudan).

Mr Malloch Brown replied to points raised during the debate.

(The sitting closed at 3.37 p.m.)

(The sitting closed at 3.37 p.m.)

René RADEMBINO-CONIQUET and

Glenys KINNOCK

Co-Presidents

Sir John KAPUTIN and

Dietmar NICKEL

Co-Secretaries-General

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