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Africa: AU Meeting to Discuss Economic Integration of States
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BuaNews (Tshwane)
21 May 2008
Posted to the web 21 May 2008
Bathandwa Mbola
Pretoria
President Thabo Mbeki is to attend the first meeting of the Committee of Twelve African Union Heads of State and Government, set to discuss the political and economic integration of Africa.
The President will be accompanied by Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad at the meeting scheduled for Thursday until Friday in Arusha, Tanzania.
According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, the President will depart for the meeting on Wednesday.
"President Mbeki will attend the meeting within the context of ongoing discussions within the AU regarding the political and economic integration of Africa in establishing the Union Government," the department said.
The meeting is expected to consider the report from the AU Executive Council of Ministers following their deliberations in Arusha earlier in the month.
It will also include the report of the Ministerial Committee of Ten on the Union Government.
The Ministerial Committee of Ten was mandated by the Assembly at its Summit in Accra, Ghana in July 2007, to consider the following issues pertaining to the Union Government and report thereon to the AU Summit in February 2008.
The issues included:
* The content of the concept of the Union Government and its relationship with national governments.
* The domains of competence and the impact of the establishment of the Union Government on the sovereignty of Member States.
* Defining the relationship between the Union Government and the Regional Economic Communities.
* Elaborating on the road map together with the time frames for establishing the Union Government.
Following the presentation of the report and recommendations, of the Ministerial Committee of Ten to the AU Summit held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in February 2008, the department said the Assembly agreed to expand and elevate the Committee of Ten to a Heads of State level that would also include the immediate past Chairperson of the Union as well as current Chairperson of the Union to consider the matter further.
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The Ministerial Committee of Ten was composed of the following member states: South Africa and Botswana (Southern Region), Libya and Egypt (Northern Region), Gabon and Cameroon (Central Region), Ethiopia and Uganda (Eastern Region), and Nigeria and Senegal (Western Region). -
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