# Official Journal C 272/3 No

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| Official Journal
  of the European Union | C 272 |
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| English edition | Information and Notices | Volume 483 November 2005 |

ISSN 1725-2423

Official Journal

of the European Union

C 272

English edition

Information and Notices

Volume 483 November 2005

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| Notice No | Contents | page |
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| | I   Information |
| | Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Partnership Agreement concluded between the Members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of states, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part |
| 2005/C 272/1 | Minutes of the sitting of Monday, 18 April 2005 | 1 |
| Formal inaugural sitting


  Sitting of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly


  Composition of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly


  Accreditation of non-parliamentary representatives


  Substitutes


  Adoption of draft agenda (ACP-EU/3748/rev. 2)


  Approval of the minutes of the last sitting of the 8th ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (OJ C 80, 1.04.2005)


  Message from Mr Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General, to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals


  Report by Mrs María Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco and Mr Donald Ramotar (Guyana) on the progress made in achieving universal primary education and gender equality in the ACP countries in the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), on behalf of the Committee on Social Affairs and the Environment


  Report on the activities of the economic and social partners


  Urgent topic 1: Situation in the Sudan |
| 2005/C 272/2 | Minutes of the sitting of Tuesday, 19 April 2005 | 4 |
| Substitutes


  Urgent topic No. 2: Situation in the African Great Lakes Region


  Statement by Mr de Sousa (Angola) on the Marburg haemorrhagic fever outbreak in Angola


  Statement by Mr Louis Michel, Member of the Commission with special responsibility for development and humanitarian aid


  Question time to the Commission — Mr Michel


  Action taken by the Commission on the resolutions adopted at the 8th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, held in The Hague


  Debate with the Commission — Mr Michel


  Statement by Mr Jean-Louis Schiltz, Minister for Cooperation and Humanitarian Action (Luxembourg), President-in-Office of the EU Council


  Statement by Mr Victor Borges, Minister for Foreign Affairs (Cape Verde), President-in-Office of the ACP Council


  Question Time to the Council


  Debate with the Council


  Progress report by Mr Peter Mandelson, Member of the Commission with special responsibility for external trade, on the negotiations on the economic partnership agreements (no resolution)


  Continuation of point 5. — Mr Mandelson


  Debate with the Commission — Mr Mandelson |
| 2005/C 272/3 | Minutes of the sitting of Wednesday, 20 April 2005 | 7 |
| Substitutes


  Approval of the minutes of the sitting of Monday, 18 April 2005


  Report by Mr José Ribeiro e Castro and Mr Salomão (Mozambique) on post-conflict rehabilitation in the ACP countries on behalf of the Committee on Political Affairs


  Announcement by the Co-President


  Report by Mr Thierry Cornillet and Mr David Matongo (Zambia) on the budgetisation of the European Development Funds on behalf of the Committee on Economic Development, Finance and Trade


  Debate on the consequences of the December 2004 tsunami for the ACP countries and measures to be taken in future |
| 2005/C 272/4 | Minutes of the sitting of Thursday, 21 April 2005 | 8 |
| Substitutes


  Approval of the minutes of the sitting of Tuesday, 19 April morning and afternoon and of Wednesday, 20 April morning


  Debate on consequence of the December 2004 tsunami for the ACP countries and measures to be taken in future


  Debate on the situation in Togo


  Summary reports on the workshops


  Vote on the motions for resolutions included in the reports submitted by the three standing committees


  Vote on urgent motions for resolutions


  The Bamako Declaration on the Millennium Development Goals


  Any other business


  Date and place of the 10th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly |
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| | 13 |
| | 17 |

Notice No

Contents

page

I   Information

Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Partnership Agreement concluded between the Members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of states, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part

2005/C 272/1

Minutes of the sitting of Monday, 18 April 2005

1

Formal inaugural sitting

Sitting of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly

Composition of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly

Accreditation of non-parliamentary representatives

Substitutes

Adoption of draft agenda (ACP-EU/3748/rev. 2)

Approval of the minutes of the last sitting of the 8th ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (OJ C 80, 1.04.2005)

Message from Mr Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General, to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals

Report by Mrs María Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco and Mr Donald Ramotar (Guyana) on the progress made in achieving universal primary education and gender equality in the ACP countries in the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), on behalf of the Committee on Social Affairs and the Environment

Report on the activities of the economic and social partners

Urgent topic 1: Situation in the Sudan

2005/C 272/2

Minutes of the sitting of Tuesday, 19 April 2005

4

Substitutes

Urgent topic No. 2: Situation in the African Great Lakes Region

Statement by Mr de Sousa (Angola) on the Marburg haemorrhagic fever outbreak in Angola

Statement by Mr Louis Michel, Member of the Commission with special responsibility for development and humanitarian aid

Question time to the Commission — Mr Michel

Action taken by the Commission on the resolutions adopted at the 8th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, held in The Hague

Debate with the Commission — Mr Michel

Statement by Mr Jean-Louis Schiltz, Minister for Cooperation and Humanitarian Action (Luxembourg), President-in-Office of the EU Council

Statement by Mr Victor Borges, Minister for Foreign Affairs (Cape Verde), President-in-Office of the ACP Council

Question Time to the Council

Debate with the Council

Progress report by Mr Peter Mandelson, Member of the Commission with special responsibility for external trade, on the negotiations on the economic partnership agreements (no resolution)

Continuation of point 5. — Mr Mandelson

Debate with the Commission — Mr Mandelson

2005/C 272/3

Minutes of the sitting of Wednesday, 20 April 2005

7

Substitutes

Approval of the minutes of the sitting of Monday, 18 April 2005

Report by Mr José Ribeiro e Castro and Mr Salomão (Mozambique) on post-conflict rehabilitation in the ACP countries on behalf of the Committee on Political Affairs

Announcement by the Co-President

Report by Mr Thierry Cornillet and Mr David Matongo (Zambia) on the budgetisation of the European Development Funds on behalf of the Committee on Economic Development, Finance and Trade

Debate on the consequences of the December 2004 tsunami for the ACP countries and measures to be taken in future

2005/C 272/4

Minutes of the sitting of Thursday, 21 April 2005

8

Substitutes

Approval of the minutes of the sitting of Tuesday, 19 April morning and afternoon and of Wednesday, 20 April morning

Debate on consequence of the December 2004 tsunami for the ACP countries and measures to be taken in future

Debate on the situation in Togo

Summary reports on the workshops

Vote on the motions for resolutions included in the reports submitted by the three standing committees

Vote on urgent motions for resolutions

The Bamako Declaration on the Millennium Development Goals

Any other business

Date and place of the 10th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

10

13

17

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