main angle, that of the damage caused to Africa through the Transatlantic slave trade, slavery, colonialism and neocolonialism.
This theme, whose relevance and timeliness are beyond any doubt, is a continuation of the International Conference held here, in Ghana last year, in 2023, on the theme “Building a United Front to Promote the cause of Justice and the Payment of Reparations to Africans.”
The theme proposed for the year 2025, therefore, aims at giving greater visibility to this “United Front” for greater effectiveness in this quest considered as an inalienable right. It behoves you to assess, in this regard, the Draft Strategy submitted for your consideration in order to respond to our legitimate concerns and aspirations.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
In accordance with your Decision, adopted last February, on the Situation in the PanAfrican Parliament (PAP), elections were conducted to fill vacant positions within the Bureau. Furthermore, work on the operational framework, defining the respective roles of the Bureau of PAP and the Secretariat has actually begun and a Progress Report is available.
Unfortunately, the audit exercise of the Board of External Auditors was hampered by technical issues, including the absence of a budget line in the current budget. These good results attest to a happy return to the normal functioning of this important institution of our Union.
To conclude on this point, I would like, thanks to this normalisation of the life of the PAP, to urge the Member States, which have not yet done so, through your Council, to sign and ratify the Maputo Protocol so that finally the PAP enters into full functionality, characteristic of all Parliaments.
If the PAP has regained functional serenity, this is not yet the case at the African Union Commission on Nuclear Energy, AFCONE, where the Executive Secretary continues to lock himself in a regrettable posture of defiance of the authority established, by refusing to recognise the links of subordination, which bind him to all the hierarchical levels, on which he depends. The disciplinary procedure against him has been completed and the separation will be recorded. We have no intention of accepting any tolerance for blatant violations of our procedural Rules.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
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