The ACP Council of Ministers is the Group´s main decision-making body. It is the supreme body responsible for implementing the guidelines laid down by the Summit. Ministerial sectoral meetings are also held regularly. The Council is composed of a member of Government from each ACP State or a government-designated representative. The 94th Session of the ocuncil was held in Brussels, Belgium 7-9 December and adopted four key resolutions.

RESOLUTIONS

1. BANANAS
2. SUGAR
3. COTTON
4. ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS (EPAs)

We, the key policy makers and regulators in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector of African Caribbean and Pacific states, meeting at the Secretariat of the ACP Group of States in Brussels, Belgium on the 20^th and 21^st of October 2011 at the first ACP-Europe ICT Roundtable organised jointly by the ACP Secretariat and the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), with the aim of assisting ACP states to rollout and utilise Broadband;

The ACP Group of States is deeply concerned with the deteriorating food security situation in the Horn of Africa.

This crisis has already claimed thousands of lives and is threatening the lives of more than 10 million people with many more at risk of starving to death if relief does not reach them in good time.

The ACP Group expresses solidarity with, and profound sympathy to, the Governments and peoples of the affected countries in the Region at the tragic loss of lives, livelihoods and human suffering, especially of women, children and the elderly.

The ACP Group is shocked to learn of the attack on the residence of President Alpha Condé, President of the Republic of Guinea, by a group of soldiers on Tuesday 19 July 2011. The ACP Group firmly condemns this aborted coup d'etat and attempted assassination of the President of Guinea, and reiterates its rejection of accession to power by violence or unconstitutional means.

Brussels - 7 April 2011

Seventeen years have now passed since the genocide that plunged Rwanda into mourning in 1994. Yet, that horrific period remains vividly etched in our collective memory and serves as a reminder to the international community of the need to remain vigilant in the face of the risk - that can never be completely discounted - of reliving similar tragedies fuelled solely by racial, ethnic or ideological differences.

1.On Tuesday 29 March 2011, consultations were held in Brussels between the Republic of Guinea-Bissau and the European Union, under Article 96 of the ACP-EU Cotonou Partnership Agreement.

The ACP Committee of Ambassadors, - meeting in its 838th session on 10 March 2011, in Brussels,
 
DEEPLY CONCERNED by the continuing deadlock in the post-electoral crisis in Côte d’Ivoire characterized by the denial of the democratic rights of the Ivorian people, and by the escalation of the violence inflicted on the citizens of that country;

The Committee of Ambassadors of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States,

The Committee of Ambassadors of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States,

1.Having examined, during its 836th meeting on 27 January 2011, the current political situation in Côte d’Ivoire since the announcement of the results of the second round of the presidential election, which was held on 28 November 2010;

The ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly,

Meeting in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo) from 2 to 4 December 2010,

Having regard to the provisions of the Electoral Code of Côte d’Ivoire;

Having regard to the Code of Conduct for political parties, groupings,political movements and candidates in the elections in Côte d’Ivoire;

Considering the risk that any blunder in the electoral process could entail for the political and social balance acquired, with difficulty, in Côte d’Ivoire, and for the stability of the entire sub-region;