Luanda - The Committee of Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are meeting on Monday in virtual format to consider the organization’s draft legal instruments.
According to a press release to which ANGOP had access, the meeting will analyze the degree of compliance with the decisions taken at the previous session and assess the draft SADC legal instruments to be recommended to the Council and the Summit for consideration, approval, homologation and signature.
The document adds that these will include the draft agreement to amend the Organization’s Treaty in order to enshrine the establishment of a dual membership structure, made up of Troikas from the institutions.
The draft SADC Declaration on the Protection of Persons with Albinism will also be discussed, through which member states commit to taking effective preventive, protective, accountable, equal and non-discriminatory measures, in partnership with all stakeholders, to ensure the safety and protection of people and accountability for crimes committed against them.
During the meeting, the ministers of justice and attorneys-general will also discuss, among other things, the selection of a judge for the SADC Administrative Tribunal, as well as the assessment of the project on the report and the reasons and implications of slowness recorded in the signing process of the ratification and accession to the protocols and to other legal instruments of the SADC.
The session of the SADC Committee of Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General will be preceded by a meeting of the organization’s senior legal officials attached to the ministries of justice and attorneys general of the member states.
SADC
SADC is an organization made up of sixteen (16) member states, created in 1980 as the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) and later, in August 1992, transformed into the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
The organization's mission is to promote sustainable and equitable economic growth and social and economic development through efficient production systems, deeper cooperation and integration, good governance and lasting peace and security, so that the region emerges as a competitive and effective player in the context of international relations and the world economy. FMA/SC/MRA/DOJ
