20 Jan 2019

Minister of International Affairs and Cooperation, Dr Unity Dow is in Brussels, Belgium attending the 1st EU-AU Ministerial Meeting, which starts January 21 and ends January 22.

A press release from the ministry states that the ministerial meeting is a follow-up to the 5th EU-AU Summit, which was held in Abidjan, Cȏte d’ Ivoire in November 2017.

It says the meeting will review progress and deliberate on ways and means of accelerating implementation of commitments made on the strategic priority areas consistent with the Abidjan Declaration, adopted at the EU-AU Abidjan Summit.

Among the priority areas outlined in the Declaration include; investing in people; education, science, technology and skills development; strengthening resilience, peace, security and governance; migration and mobility; and mobilising investments for African Structural Sustainable Transformation.”

The release says the ministerial meeting will thus chart the way forward towards the next AU-EU Summit, which will be held in Europe in 2020. Dr Dow returns on January 24. ENDS