Minutes of the sitting of Wednesday, 2 April 2003
Date: 2003-09-26
Institutions: ACP–EU Joint Assembly
Subjects: ACP countries, ACP-EU Joint Assembly, agreement (EU), parliamentary sitting

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MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF WEDNESDAY, 2 APRIL 2003

(2003/C 231/03)

(The sitting opened at 9.17 a.m.)

IN THE CHAIR: Mrs. Glenys KINNOCK

Co-President

1.

Substitutes

4.

Statement by Ambassador Todd McClay, on behalf
of the President-in-Office of the ACP Council

The Co-President announced the following substitutes: Bebear
(for Balfe), García-Margallo (for Bowis), Knolle (for Ferrer),
Pomés Ruiz (for Lulling) and Scarbonchi (for Wurtz).

Mr McClay addressed the Assembly on behalf of the ACP
Council.

The Co-President announced that Item 10 on the agenda
would be taken first, followed by Council statements and
answers to questions.

5. Question time — Council

Three questions were put to the ACP Council of Ministers.

2.

Subjects and themes relating to development cooper-
ation between the EU and ACP countries under the
Cotonou Agreement, pursuant to Article 8(1)(ii)

Mr McClay replied to the following questions and to sup-
plementary questions by their authors:

International Criminal Court

Question No 1 by Mr Davies (South Africa) on the ACP
Council’s approach to the negotiations with the EU: the
position of LDCs

The following spoke: Theorin, Fava, Fofanah (Sierra Leone),
Amon-Ago (Côte d’Ivoire), the representative of Congo and
van den Berg.

Question No 2 by the following members: Lucas, Lannoye,
Rod, Schörling, Maes and Isler Béguin, on behalf of the Verts/
ALE Group, on Lesotho

NEPAD

The following spoke: Boureïma (Niger), the representative
of Ghana, Amon-Ago (Côte d’Ivoire), Schörling, Olango
(Ethiopia), Mporogomyi (Tanzania), Bebear and Hamburger
(European Commission).

Question No 3 by the following members: Schörling, Lannoye,
Lucas, Rod, Maes and Isler Béguin, on behalf of the Verts/ALE
Group, on Somalia

Sixteen questions were put to the EU Council of Ministers.

Mr Loverdos replied to the following questions and to the
supplementary questions by their authors:

Follow-up to the Johannesburg Summit

Question No 4 by Mrs Kinnock on EU-Africa relations

The following spoke: Boureïma (Niger) and Hamburger (Euro-
pean Commission).

Question No 6 by Mrs Dybkjær, on behalf of the ELDR Group,
on conflict prevention

3.

Statement by Mr Andreas Loverdos, Greek Deputy
Foreign Minister responsible for foreign trade and
development cooperation, President-in-Office of the
EU Council

Question No 8 by Mr Bowis on a draft action plan to combat
trafficking in human beings

Question No 12 by Mr van den Berg on the Kimberley Process

Mr Loverdos addressed the Assembly on behalf of the EU
Council.

Question No 5 by Mrs Sauquillo Pérez del Arco on EU
enlargement and cooperation policy

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Question No 9 by Mr Miranda on trade negotiations and ACP
external debt

Question No 13 by Mr Khanbhai on investment in rural
economic development

Question No 7 by Mr van den Bos, on behalf of the ELDR
Group, on combating terrorism

Question No 17 by the following members: Rod, Maes,
Lannoye, Lucas, Schörling and Isler Béguin, on behalf of the
Verts/ALE Group, on the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline

Question No 18 by the following members: Schörling, Maes,
Isler Béguin, Lannoye, Rod and Lucas, on behalf of the Verts/
ALE Group, on Sudan — oil and conflict

Question No 14 by Mrs Carlotti on the political situation in
Equatorial Guinea

Question No 19 by Mr Weldegiorgis (Eritrea) on the demar-
cation of the Eritreo-Ethiopian Boundary

Question No 15 by Mr Van Hecke, on behalf of the ELDR
Group, on East Congo

Question No 16 by the following members: Maes, Rod,
Lannoye, Schörling and Isler Béguin, on behalf of the Verts/
ALE Group, on the Democratic Republic of Congo

Question No 10 by Mr Yohannes (Ethiopia) on the cultural
heritage

Question No 20 by Mr Martínez Martínez on the accession of
Cuba to the Cotonou Agreement

(The sitting closed at 12.10 p.m.)

Angelo BEDA and Glenys KINNOCK

Jean-Robert GOULONGANA and Dietmar NICKEL

Co-Presidents

Co-Secretaries-General