Your Excellencies, 

Honorable Members of Parliament and 

Distinguished participants

 

Your Excellency, Teodoro Obiang Nguema MBASOGO, President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea

Your Excellency, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria and Chairman of the ACP Eminent Persons' Group (EPG)

Your Excellency, Bharrat JAGDEO, former President of Guyana and other ACP Eminent Persons Group members present,

Honourable Ministers, 

Highly distinguished personalities, delegates and resource persons,

Ladies and Gentlemen

 

It is with profound pleasure that I welcome you to the ACP House for the second Regional Technical Meeting (RTM) of the Intra-ACP Global Climate Change Programme (GCCA). This technical meeting aims to explore ways to improve the exchange of information, synergies, improve cooperation and coordination among the regions and between the regions and the ACP Secretariat, and with other climate related programmes in order to best address climate change as a challenge to our development. 

 

Your Excellency Honourable Tuilaepa Lupesoliai SAILELE MALIELEGAOI, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade of  the Independent State of Samoa,

Honourable Ministers,

Your Excellencies,

Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen,

Gentlemen and Women of the Press,

 

Honourable Dr. Joyce Laboso,

President of the ACP Parliamentary Assembly,

Chairman of the ACP Committee of Ambassadors,

Members of the ACP Parliamentary Assembly,

Distinguished guests,

Ladies and Gentlemen,

 

I am glad to welcome you to Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia, for the meetings of the 34th Session of the ACP Parliamentary Assembly and 26th Session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. 

 

Distinguished Honourable Ministers;

Our Special Guests, Ambassador Yonov AGAH Deputy Director-General of the WTO and Mr Martin KHOR, Executive Director of South Centre,

Permanent Secretaries and Directors-General of Ministries responsible for Trade matters in ACP States

Excellency Ambassadors, 

Heads and representatives of ACP regional integration organizations

Distinguished participants, 

Ladies and gentlemen, 

 

Promote Permanent Secretaries and Directors-General of Ministries responsible for Trade Issues in ACP States; Excellency Ambassadors; Heads and Representatives of ACP regional integration organizations; Distinguished participants; Ladies and gentlemen, 

 

It is a pleasure for me to welcome you all to Brussels, Belgium, and to ACP House, your House, for this meeting of ACP Senior Trade Officials and Technical Follow-up Group on EPA negotiations and implementation. 

 

Honourable Dr. Joyce Laboso,

Honourable President of the ACP Parliamentary Assembly,

Excellency, Chairman of the ACP Committee of Ambassadors,

Honourable Members of the ACP Parliamentary Assembly,

Distinguished guests,

Ladies and Gentlemen,

 

Your Excellency, Hon. Christopher J Loek, Chairman of the Forum, President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands; Distinguished Heads of State and Government of the Pacific Islands Forum; Hon. Tuiloma Neroni Slade, Secretary-General of Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat; 

Heads of Regional and International Organizations; Members of the Diplomatic Corps; Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen

 

Mr Chairman