ACP-EU JOINT PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY

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1 ACP-EU JOINT PARLIAMTARY ASSEMBLY 18 April 2005 ACP-EU/3748/2005 9th SESSION BAMAKO (Mali) 16 to 21 April 2005 Palais des Congrès AGDA and WORK PROGRAMME Website of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly: APP/3748/fin.

2 1. Deadline for tabling questions to the Council and Commission - Thursday, 3 March at 4 p.m. 2. Deadline for tabling urgent motions for resolutions - Thursday, 31 March at 12 noon 3. Deadline for tabling compromise motions for resolution - Monday, 18 April at 3 p.m. 4. Deadline for tabling amendments to the motions for resolutions included in the reports submitted by the standing committees - Monday, 18 April at 6 p.m. to compromise resolutions and other urgent motions for resolutions to be put to the vote - Tuesday, 19 April at 3 p.m. 5. Requests relating to voting methods (votes on separate parts of the text, by secret ballot, by separate houses) - Thursday, 21 April at 9 a.m. in writing 6. Limitation of speaking time (cf. Article 14(2) of the Rules of Procedure) 5 minutes for introductory statements 3 minutes for speakers in debates (unless speaking time is allocated differently on the basis of a division of the total time available) 2 minutes for winding up APP/3748/fin. 2/6

3 Other meeting WEDNESDAY, 20 April 7 p.m. Meeting of the Bureau (Salle des Banquets) 3/6 APP/3748/fin.

4 MONDAY, 18 April 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Formal opening sitting of the 9th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly List of speakers: - Welcoming address by Mr Moussa Badoulaye Traoré, Central Mayor of the District of Bamako - Mr Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita, President of the National Assembly of Mali - Mrs Sharon Hay-Webster, Co-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly - Mrs Glenys Kinnock, Co-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly - Mr Amadou Toumani Touré, President of the Republic of Mali 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sitting of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly Constituent meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly and accreditation of non-parliamentary representatives 1. Adoption of draft agenda 2. Approval of the minutes of the 8th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (OJ C 80 of 1 st April 2005) 3. Message from Mr Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals 4. Joint debate on: Report by Mrs María Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco and Mr Donald Ramotar (Guyana) - Progress made in achieving universal primary education and gender equality in the ACP countries in the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Committee on Social Affairs and the Environment Bamako Declaration on the Millennium Development Goals Statement by: - Mrs Evelyne Herfkens, Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Campaign 5. Report on the activities of the economic and social partners 6. Urgent topic No 1: Situation in Sudan APP/3748/fin. 4/6

5 TUESDAY, 19 April 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 7. Statement by Mr Louis Michel, Member of the Commission with special responsibility for development and humanitarian aid 8. Question Time to the Commission 9. Action taken by the Commission on the resolutions adopted at the 8th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, held in The Hague 10. Debate with the Commission 11. Urgent topic No 2: Situation in the African Great Lakes Region 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. 12. Statement by Mr Jean-Louis Schiltz, Minister for Cooperation and Humanitarian Action (Luxembourg), President-in-Office of the EU Council 13. Statement by Mr Victor Borges, Minister for Foreign Affairs (Cape Verde), President-in- Office of the ACP Council 14. Question Time to the Council 15. Debate with the Council 16. Progress report on the negotiations on the economic partnership agreements (no resolution) - Statement by Mr Peter Mandelson, Member of the Commission with special responsibility for external trade, followed by a debate WEDNESDAY, 20 April 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 17. Report by Mr José Ribeiro e Castro and Mr Tomaz Salomaõ (Mozambique) - Post-conflict rehabilitation in the ACP countries Committee on Political affairs 5/6 APP/3748/fin.

6 18. Report by Mr Thierry Cornillet and Mr David Matongo (Zambia) - Budgetisation of the European Development Fund Committee on Economic Development, Finance and Trade 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. 19. Workshops: - The cotton sector in Mali - Desertification and saving the River Niger - Negotiations on economic partnership agreements in West Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific 7 p.m. Meeting of the Bureau THURSDAY, 21 April 8.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. 20. Debate on impact of the tsunami of December 2004 on ACP countries and measures to take for the future (without resolution) 21. Debate on the situation in Togo (without resolution) 22. Summary reports from the workshops 23. Vote on the motions for resolutions included in the reports submitted by the three standing committees 24. Vote on urgent motions for resolutions 25. Any other business 26. Date and place of the 10th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly APP/3748/fin. 6/6