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AU Chairperson Assoumani to address PAP Opening Session

President of the Union of Comoros and Chairperson of the African Union (AU), H.E. Azali Assoumani, will officially declare open, the Second Ordinary Session of the Sixth Parliament of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) on Monday, 15 May 2023.

President Assoumani is scheduled to address the African Parliamentarians on the State of the Union and the priority areas of his tenure at the helm of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government. The Second Ordinary Session of the Sixth Parliament will run from 15 May to 2 June 2023 under the African Union theme for the year 2023: “Year of AfCFTA: Acceleration of the African Continental Free Trade Area Implementation.”

Assoumani was elected Chairperson of the Assembly of the Union at its Thirty-Sixth Ordinary Session held on 18 - 19 February 2023 at Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA. He took over from President Macky Sall of Senegal

The President of the Pan-African Parliament, H.E. Hon. Chief Fortune Charumbira says that the expected address by H.E. Assoumani is a testament to the strategic role accorded to the Pan-African Parliament within the African Union architecture in the attainment of an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa.

“The presence of the Chairperson of our Union at the official opening of the Second Ordinary Session of the Sixth Parliament validates the work undertaken by the leadership of the Parliament to reinvigorate, renew and revive the legislative arm of the African Union. This is a vote of confidence in our parliamentary body and its capacity to ensure the full participation of African peoples in the economic development and integration of the continent,” said Hon. Chief Charumbira.


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