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| 15.12.2006 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 307/5 |
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15.12.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 307/5

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MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2006

MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2006

(2006/C 307/03)

(The sitting opened at 9.15 a.m.)

(The sitting opened at 9.15 a.m.)

IN THE CHAIR: Mr René RADEMBINO-CONIQUET

Co-President

Co-President

1.   Substitutes

The Co-President announced the following substitutes: Goebbels (for Bullmann), Pomés Ruiz (for Herranz García), Fernández Martín (for López-Istúriz White), Mauro (for Sartori), van den Berg (for Dobolyi), Evans (for Ferreira), Zaleski (for Wieland) and Morgantini (for Wurtz).

2.   Approval of the minutes of Monday, 19 June and Tuesday morning, 20 June 2006

The minutes were approved.

3.   Statement by Mr Hans Winkler, Secretary of State in the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Austria), President-in-Office of the EU Council of Ministers

Mr Winkler made a statement on behalf of the EU Council on the subjects discussed during the Austrian EU Presidency in the field of development cooperation.

4.   Statement by Mr Onofre Rojas, Secretary of State (Dominican Republic), President-in-Office of the ACP Council of Ministers

Mr Onofre made a statement on behalf of the ACP Council on the 10th EDF, trade issues, the regional strategies, democracy, human rights and the rule of law, conflict resolution and other issues of the current development agenda, the follow-up to the resolutions adopted at the 10th session of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly and the future of the ACP group.

5.   Question Time with the Council

Three questions had been put to the ACP Council.

Mr Onofre answered the following questions:

Question 1 by Mr Faure (Seychelles) on ACP trade and aid;

Question 2 by Mrs Carlotti on migration and development;

The author of Question No 3 was not present.

Eleven questions had been put to the EU Council.

Mrs Irene Freudenschuss-Reichl, Director-General of the Department of Development Cooperation, Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Austria), answered the following questions and supplementary questions:

Question 8 by Mr Assarid Imbarcaouane (Mali) on WTO negotiations;

Question 16 by Mrs Gomes on Timor-Leste;

Question 12 by Mr Fernández Martín on development and migration;

Question 13 by Mr Bowis on exchange of information on floods;

The following questions were not followed by supplementary ones:

Question 4 by Mr Metsing Mothejoa (Lesotho) on the European Development Fund;

Question 5 by Mrs Carlotti, Mr Dlamini (Swaziland) and Mr Dawaleh (Djibouti) on the amount of the 10th EDF and funding of the ACP-EU partnership;

Question 9 by Mr Faure (Seychelles) on EU assistance to ACP sugar protocol countries;

The authors of Questions Nos 10, 11, 14 and 15 were not present.

6.   Debate with the Council

Debate with the European Union Council of Ministers and with the ACP Council of Ministers

The following spoke: Martínez Martínez, Assarid Imbarcaouane (Mali), Deerpalsing (Mauritius), Pomés Ruiz (for Herranz García), Kinnock, Cavuilati (Fiji), Akpovi (Benin), Ribeiro e Castro and Sebetela (Botswana).

7.   Report by Mr Emanuel Jardim Fernandes and Mr Joses Sanga (Solomon Islands), on behalf of the Committee on Social Affairs and the Environment, on fisheries and its social and environmental aspects in developing countries (ACP-EU 3847/06/fin.)

Mr Jardim Fernandes and Mr Sanga presented their report.

The following spoke: Martens, Sylla (Mali), Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Sithole (Mozambique), Hall, Schlyter, d'Offay (Seychelles), Bowis, Goudin, Baum (European Commission), Top (Guinea) and Almada (Cape Verde).

Mr Jardim Fernandes and Mr Sanga (Solomon Islands) wound up the debate.

(The sitting closed at 1.11 p.m.)

(The sitting closed at 1.11 p.m.)

René RADEMBINO-CONIQUET and

Glenys KINNOCK

Co-Presidents

Sir John KAPUTIN and

Dietmar NICKEL

Co-Secretaries-General

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