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African Union's Foreign Ministers Convene in Addis Ababa to Discuss Regional Issues
African Union's Foreign Ministers Convene in Addis Ababa to Discuss Regional Issues
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Foreign ministers of African countries are going to meet on Wednesday at the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to discuss the most topical problems of the continent.
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The foreign ministers of African countries are going to meet on Wednesday at the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to discuss the most topical problems of the continent.The session of the executive council of the AU will be held for two days on 15 and 16 February. It is expected that during the session, the heads of foreign ministries, with the help of the organization's staff, will discuss and prepare materials on the most important issues facing the continent, which will be raised at the 36th summit of the heads of state of the regional association in a few days.The forthcoming meetings within the African Union will be held without its four permanent members: Sudan, Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea. Membership of the last three countries in the organization has been suspended over the past few years because of military coups that took place there. Khartoum's membership in the African Union was frozen in 2021 when the country's ruling military toppled the transitional government formed by Abdullah Hamdok.The political situation in these countries will be one of many issues that will be raised during the meeting.According to experts interviewed by Sputnik, particular attention will be paid to the implementation of the peace agreement between the government and the rebels from the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), signed in November last year. The conflict in northern Ethiopia between Addis Ababa and the rebels has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people, according to the most conservative estimates of observers,.The experts also stated that the participants of the meetings at the level of the executive council of the African Union, and then the Assembly, will call on the countries of the region to cooperate in the construction of the Renaissance hydroelectric power station by Ethiopia, against which Egypt and Sudan raised objections. Apart from that, they will focus on ways to ease tensions in the African Great Lakes region, review the situation in the Central African Republic, and discuss the possibility of intensifying the deadlocked inter-Libyan negotiations, which are expected to be marked by the long-awaited presidential elections in Libya.It is expected that first the African ministers in Addis Ababa, and then the countries' leaders, will also touch upon the situation in and around Ukraine, which, according to some states, affects the economic situation in Africa.
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African Union's Foreign Ministers Convene in Addis Ababa to Discuss Regional Issues
08:42 GMT 15.02.2023 (Updated: 10:09 GMT 15.02.2023) Before the 36th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, which will be held on 18 and 19 February, the Executive Council consisting of foreign ministers of member states will consider the Assembly session agendas and decisions drafted for its consideration.
The foreign ministers of African countries are going to meet on Wednesday at the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to discuss the most topical problems of the continent.
The session of the executive council of the AU will be held for two days on 15 and 16 February. It is expected that during the session, the heads of foreign ministries, with the help of the organization's staff, will discuss and prepare materials on the most important issues facing the continent, which will be raised at the 36th summit of the heads of state of the regional association in a few days.
The forthcoming meetings within the African Union will be held without its four permanent members: Sudan, Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea. Membership of the last three countries in the organization has been
suspended over the past few years because of military coups that took place there. Khartoum's membership in the African Union was frozen in 2021 when the country's ruling military toppled the transitional government formed by Abdullah Hamdok.
The political situation in these countries will be one of many issues that will be raised during the meeting.
10 February 2023, 10:43 GMT
According to experts interviewed by
Sputnik, particular attention will be paid to the implementation of the peace agreement between the government and the rebels from the Tigray People's Liberation Front (
TPLF), signed in November last year. The conflict in northern Ethiopia between Addis Ababa and the rebels has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people, according to the most conservative estimates of observers,.
The experts also stated that the participants of the meetings at the level of the executive council of the African Union, and then the Assembly, will call on the countries of the region to cooperate in the construction of the
Renaissance hydroelectric power station by Ethiopia, against which Egypt and Sudan raised objections. Apart from that, they will focus on ways to ease tensions in the African Great Lakes region, review the situation in the Central African Republic, and discuss the possibility of intensifying the deadlocked inter-Libyan negotiations, which are expected to be marked by the long-awaited presidential elections in Libya.
It is expected that first the African ministers in Addis Ababa, and then the countries' leaders, will also touch upon the situation in and around Ukraine, which, according to some states, affects the economic situation in Africa.
