Chairperson
of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) and President of the Union of Comoros,
H.E. Azali Assoumani has committed
to supporting the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) to realize its mandate as a
legislative organ of the Union.
Provided
for by Article 6 of the Constitutive Act of the African Union, the Assembly of
the Union is composed of Heads of State and Government of member states and is
the supreme organ of the Union. President Assoumani
was elected in February 2023 at the last AU Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and
will hole office for a period of one year.
He
was speaking as a Guest of Honour at the opening of the Second Ordinary Session
of the Sixth Parliament of the PAP, which runs from Monday 15 May to June 2 at
the seat of the Parliament in Midrand, South Africa, under the AU theme for
2023: “Accelerating the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade
Area (AfCFTA)”.
President
Assoumani promised to give the
Parliament, the necessary support to accomplish her mission and promised to strengthen
PAP to make it more efficient, effective and visible to the people of Africa.
“I
will do everything in my power, during my term of office, to provide you with
the necessary support and assistance, with a view to achieving your objectives
of peace, stability, development and strengthening of democracy and the state
of rights, in Africa, of the ideals shared by our Organization continental,”
said H.E Assoumani
“I
am aware of your commitment and your determination to work in favor of the
defense of the interests of the African peoples as our continental legislators.
I would like to assure all of you here present, of my firm commitment to work
in close collaboration, with all countries and all institutions and
organizations, including the PAP, for more peace and progress, in our continent
and across the world as a whole. Our common duty, as you all know, is to help
our organisation achieve the objectives it has set itself set out in its Agenda
2063.”
H.E Assoumani also expressed
happiness at the presence of the majority of the members of parliament.
“I
am delighted to see your large presence at the opening of this session. This
testifies to the interest that you bring to the relations of solidarity and
fraternity which constitute the very substance of our continental organization.”
He
further encouraged African legislators to help establish appropriate
conditions, to promote socio-economic development in the continent.
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