STATEMENT BY CABINET SECRETARY FOR THE NATIONAL TREASURY AND PLANNING, HENRY ROTICH, DURING THE SPECIAL SESSION OF THE 107th ACP COUNCIL OF MINISTERS MEETING ON POST COTONOU, LOME, TOGO, 27 MAY 2018. 

Declaration of ACP Ministers of Culture at the conclusion of their 4th meeting held in Brussels on 9th to 10th November 2017.

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I. The ACP Ministers of Culture meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on 9 and 10 November 2017

A. Reiterate the commitments made at previous meetings (Dakar 2003, Santo Domingo 2006, and Brussels 2012); while regretting that an effective follow-up mechanism has not been established;

SUMMARY DECISIONS

Pacific ACP (PACP) Leaders and their representatives from Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu met on 5 September 2017 in Apia, Samoa. The Meeting was chaired by Honourable Tuilaepa Fatialofa Lupesoliai Sa’ilele Malielegaoi, Prime Minister of Samoa.

St. Julian’s, Malta, 22 June 2017/ ACP: The following declaration was adopted yesterday on Wednesday 21 June 2017 at the 33^rd session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA). The JPA brings together Members of the European Parliament alongside Members of Parliament from 78 African, Caribbean and Pacific states that have signed the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement. The JPA is the only forum where ACP parliamentary representatives can voice their needs and worries directly to the European Parliament as well as the European Commission.

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ADOPTED BY THE 8^TH SUMMIT OF ACP HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT HELD IN PORT MORESBY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, ON 31 MAY AND 1 JUNE 2016

The Heads of State and Government of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP Group), held their 8^th Summit in Waigani, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on 31 May and 1 June 2016, under the chairmanship of Hon. Peter O’NEILL, Prime Minister of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea. The Summit was organised under the theme, “Repositioning the ACP Group to respond to the challenges of sustainable development.”

PORT MORESBY DECLARATION

I.          PREAMBLE

We, Heads of State and Government of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP Group), meeting at our 8^th Summit in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea on 31 May and 1 June 2016 under the theme “Repositioning the ACP Group to respond to the challenges of sustainable development”,