ACP Secretariat
25 September: SC on Investment and Private Sector
28 September: Central Negotiating Group (CNG)
European Parliament
24-27 September: European Parliament Committee Meetings
European Council
23-25 September: Informal meeting of agriculture ministers
24 September: Working Party of Foreign Relations Counsellors (Relex)
COMMUNIQUE: 1. The Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat, the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and the Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres, met on 23 September 2018 at United Nations Headquarters in New York in the margins of the United Nations General Assembly. They were accompanied by senior officials from the three organisations, including Vice President/High Representative Federica Mogherini, Commissioner for Peace and Security Smail Chergui, Commissioner for Political Affairs Minata Samate Cessouma and Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed.
Cameroon is kicking off the “pure origin” labelling process of the cocoa produced at post-harvest processing excellence centers in the country’s production areas. This will follow a meeting between the Confédération des chocolatiers et confiseurs de France, the Cameroonian cocoa and coffee inter-professional council, the trade minister and the French Ambassador to Cameroon on September 30 in Nkog-Ekogo, the Central region.
Angel Gurria, Secretary General of the OECD, today submitted to Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, a report from the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD on French development policy from 2013 to 2018. The report commends France on its announcements that it will increase government aid and on the changes to the strategic direction of its policies, in line with the Sustainable Development Objectives (SDO).
The Commission has committed €9 million for disaster preparedness initiatives in Madagascar, Malawi, Lesotho, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. The funding will also help to promote effective humanitarian action at regional level. The Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region is frequently affected by natural disasters that hit the most vulnerable populations, causing casualties and population displacement.