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Technical Working Group on the Facilitation of the Africa-Arab Joint Action Plan (JAP) on Agricultural Development and Food Security Meet in Cairo
League of Arab States Headquarters, 17th and 18th May, 2015, Cairo, Egypt - The Meeting of the Technical Working Group on the Facilitation Unit of the Africa-Arab Joint Action Plan (JAP) on Agricultural Development and Food Security was held on 17th and 18th May, 2015 at the premises of the League of Arab States, in accordance to the decision taken by the Steering Committee meeting held in Kampala, Uganda dated 17/4/2015 on Agricultural Development and Food Security.
The meeting was co-chaired by Mr. Zied Alsban the new Director of the Africa-Arab Co-operation Department at the League of Arab States and Mr. Nadir Fath Elalim, on behalf of H.E Ambassador Abdelhamid BouZaher, the Head of the Permanent Delegation of the African Union Commission to the League of Arab States. In his opening remarks, Mr. Zied Alsban welcomed all participants to the meeting and reaffirmed the League of Arab States’ commitment and readiness to further enhance its relationship with its partners especially with its African partners. He emphasized the significance of the seven mechanism adopted by the Second Africa-Arab Summit held in Sirte, Libya in 2010.
Mr. Nadir in his remarks welcomed all participants and congratulated the new director for his appointment and wished him success in his job. He also emphasized on the importance of the implementation of Decision ( 3) concerning Agricultural Development and Food Security of the third Africa –Arab Summit Held in Kuwait November 2013.
Dr. Alhaj Attia Habib, in his remarks on behalf of Dr.Tariq El-Zadjali, the Director General of the Arab Organization for Agriculture Development (AOAD) stressed on the proposal made by AOAD for a new mechanism for the facilitation unit and called for support for this new mechanism.
Dr. Hassan Elhassan on behalf of Dr. Khelef the Director-General of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) welcomed participants from both sides and highlighted the role of the two organizations(AU and LAS) in formulating polices and strategies in the agricultural sector.
The meeting discussed the existing mechanism of the Facilitation Unit and noted that it is fraught with problems and challenges. Consequently, the meeting adopted a new mechanism for the operationalization of the Facilitation Unit. Under this new mechanism, a three-tier system would be used, namely the coordination team, technical advisory committee and the steering committee. The meeting also examined information on the Implementation of the Agriculture Investment Mapping Process (work plan to December 2015).
Finally the meeting arrived at a number of decisions that would permit the actual implementation of (JAP) which will be adopted by the Third Africa-Arab Ministerial meeting of agricultural development and food security plan to be held in Kampala, Uganda 19-23 October, 2015. EAH/
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Africa – Arab Partnership Meetings
Cairo, 17, March,2015 - Today a three-day Technical Consultative Meeting started at the premises of the of the League of Arab States, in Cairo, Egypt, between the African Union Commission and the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States. The objective of the meeting is to review the draft Concept Notes and Terms of References of the 4 Joint Sectoral Working Groups on Transport, Trade and Investment, Communication, Energy. This Joint Meeting was also attended by AUC/LAS Focal Points in the field of Migration to review the joined program and the Roadmap of their planned meeting in the Month of May.
The meeting was co-chaired by the Department of Africa And Africa Arab cooperation of the League of Arab States and the African Union Permanent Delegation to the League of Arab States.
At her Opening remarks, Mrs Hadia Sabry, Co-chair of the meeting on the Arab Side, welcomed the African Union Delegation to the meeting and emphasized the importance of the meeting which is called to finalize the working document or the creation of the Joint Sectoral Working Groups and wished productive deliberations to the meeting.
On his Part, Mr Nadir Fath Elalim, Co-chair of the meeting on Behalf of H.E Ambassador Abdelhamid Bouzaher the Head of the African Union Permanent Delegation to the League of Arab States, extended his gratitude and thanks to the League of Arab States for hosting the meeting during this busy time of the year, just before the Arab Summit, and appreciated the usual cooperation of the League of Arab States with the African Union.
After a general debate, the meeting decided to form five joint teams to examine the draft Terms of References of the Working Groups.
At the end of their deliberations, the Working Groups made presentations at the plenary sessions and the documents were finalized with the input from participants.
The draft Terms of References will be presented to the 8th Senior Officials Meeting of the Coordination Committee planned to be held in Addis Ababa in August 2015.
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Mrs. Eglal Abd El Halim, Cultural and information Officer, African Union I Permanent Delegation to the League of Arab States I
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