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President Bouteflika in Kampala to take part in AU Summit meeting

The President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, traveled to Kampala, Uganda, to participate in the proceedings of the 15th ordinary session of the Conference of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union (July 25-27, 2010).
The main item on the agenda of this meeting will deal with “neonatal and infantile maternal health and development in Africa” in order to assess the progress achieved by the Continent in reducing infant mortality and promoting maternal health. Both of these issues are among the eight development objectives of the millennium.
 
The head of the State will also take part in the proceedings of the Committee of the Heads of State and Government in charge of Orientation of NEPAD and in those of the Peer Evaluation Mechanism Forum.
 
According to a statement released by the Presidency of the Republic, “The proceedings of the Committee of the Heads of State and Government in charge of Orientation of NEPAD will essentially deal with the follow-up of the integration of NEPAD in the African Union, the G8 Partnership, and the other partners in the development of Africa, the participation of Africa in global governance as well as preparation for the Conference on Climate Change scheduled to take place in Mexico next December”.
 
The Peer Evaluation Mechanism Forum, on the other hand, will review the national reports on the implementation of the action plans on governance in Benin, South Africa, as well as the Mauritius and Ghana assessment reports.”
 

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The President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, has expressed the satisfaction of Algeria with the progress achieved in setting up a NEPAD Planning and Coordination Agency. The effort involves putting in place an operational agency equipped with the necessary tools and capacities to facilitate implementation and follow-up of regional and continental projects, declared the President of the Republic at the 23rd summit meeting of the Committee of the Heads of State and Government entrusted with implementing NEPAD.

The Head of the State underlined the significance connected with the strengthening of close coordination relations between the NEPAD Agency and the regional economic communities which make up the integration engine. With regards to assessing the partnership, President Bouteflika declared that this issue should remain a “primary concern” for the African bodies and, in particular, for the NEPAD Agency, noting that this will make it possible to create the required elements likely to contribute to a substantial dialogue with the developed countries on the necessary evolution of the mechanisms and contents of international cooperation in a globalized economy.

 

  • Two Algerians elected to the African Committee of experts at the African Human rights Court

Two Algerians, Mrs. Fatma-Zohra Sebaa (Delladj) and Mr. Fatah Ouguergouz, were, respectively, elected by the ministers sitting on the AU Executive council to a six-year term to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Well-Being of Children and to the position of judge at the African Court for Human Rights and Peoples, after the 17th meeting of the African Union Executive Council.
 
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