DECISION ON THE ACTIVITY REPORT OF THE PERMANENT
REPRESENTATIVES’ COMMITTEE SUB-COMMITTEE ON MULTILATERAL
COOPERATION
Doc. PRC/Rpt (XX)
The Executive Council,
1. ENDORSES the recommendations of the Permanent Representatives’ Committee (PRC) on the Report of the PRC Sub-Committee on Multilateral Cooperation on its Activities Relating to Africa’s Strategic Partnerships;
ON THE AFRICA-INDIA FORUM SUMMIT:
2. WELCOMES the launch of the Plan of Action and the steps being taken by both parties to implement it;
3. TAKES NOTE of the report on the Pan-African e-Network Project and COMMENDS the contribution of the different stakeholders in the implementation of the Network;
4. REQUESTS the regions that have not yet done so, to expedite consultations on the locations of the Institutions and Vocational Training Centers (VTC) in Africa, taking into account the criteria indicated by the Indian side, and inform the Commission of their decisions thereon;
5. ALSO REQUESTS the Commission to undertake consultations with Member States with a view to determining the venue of the 2011 Africa-India Forum Summit scheduled to be hosted in Africa;
6. INVITES Member States that have not yet done so, to sign the Pan-African e- Network Project Agreement and to participate in and extend the network to more Learning Centers and Patient End Hospitals.
ON THE AFRICA-SOUTH AMERICA (ASA) SUMMIT:
7. TAKES NOTE of the challenges encountered by the African side with respect to the coordination of the ASA Partnership;
8. EMPHASISES the imperative need for the programming of events to be centralized through the Coordination Mechanism;
9. REAFFIRMS the coordinating roles of the PRC through its Sub-Committee on Multilateral Cooperation and the Commission, in the Strategic Partnerships;
10. PROPOSES that ASA Senior Officials agree on the Implementation Plan so that ASA Foreign Ministers could endorse it on the margins of the Sixty-Fifth Session of the United Nations General Assembly scheduled for New York, United States of America, in September 2010;
11. REQUESTS the Commission to commence preparations for the Third ASA Summit in the Great Jamahiriya in 2011, and URGES the host country, the African Coordinator (the Federal Republic of Nigeria), the PRC through its Sub- Committee on Multilateral Cooperation and the Commission to take the initiative to submit proposals for consideration by the Executive Council at its next Ordinary Session scheduled in January 2011.
ON THE AFRICA-TURKEY PARTNERSHIP SUMMIT:
12. REQUESTS the Commission and the PRC through its Sub-Committee on Multilateral Cooperation, to engage with Turkey with a view to finalizing the Plan of Action and ensure its implementation.
ON THE AFRICA - EUROPEAN UNION (EU) DIALOGUE:
13. DECIDES that the Follow-up Mechanism of the African-EU Dialogue should prepare and report to the PRC through its Sub-Committee on Multilateral Cooperation, with a view to enhancing better coordination of this Dialogue;
14. REQUESTS the Commission to take the appropriate actions to follow-up and to report on the implementation of all projects under this Dialogue on a regular basis;
15. FINALLY REQUESTS the Commission to report regularly on the implementation of this Decision to the Executive Council.