Luanda - The Angolan government has welcomed the new partnership between the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and the European Union (EU), achieved through the Samoa Agreement, as well as the implementation of the Secretariat Strategic Plan for the period 2022-2025, it said in a statement.
Quoted in the statement, the Foreign Affairs minister, Téte António, who took part in the OACPS Council of Ministers meeting held virtually, Angola is satisfied with the progress made, highlighting the Summits of Heads of State and Government held in Nairobi and Luanda.
The minister highlighted that the plan aims to reinforce cooperation and collaboration within the OACPS, deepen the role and visibility of this organization at an international level, diversify and strengthen the partnership with the EU, as well as modernizing the Secretariat.
Téte António underlined that these advances demonstrate the organization's commitment to the principles and objectives established in its Constitutive Agreement and places the OACPS as an international bloc essential for the affirmation of multilateralism.
The minister added that the report presented at the 117th session of the OACPS Council of Ministers proves that the organization is not inert, but rather very active in the relationship between its members and in the implementation of programs, many of them financed by the European Union.
The agenda included topics such as the Deliberations of the Council of Ministers, Preparations for the Joint Troika Summit, the Financial Situation of the Secretariat and the Political and Security Situation of Haiti.
The Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States formerly known as the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP), is an organization created by the Georgetown Agreement in 1975.
It is made up of 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific States, except Cuba, signatories to the Cotonou Agreement, also known as the "ACP-EC Partnership Agreement", which binds them to the European Union.
There are 48 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, 16 in the Caribbean and 15 in the Pacific.
The OACPS' main objectives is the sustainable development of its member states and their gradual integration into the global economy, the coordination of activities in the framework of the implementation of the ACP-EC Partnership Agreements, the consolidation of unity and solidarity among its members and the Establishment and consolidation of peace and stability in a free and democratic society.
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