By Reinhardt Jacobsen VIENNA (IDN) – “Now more than ever, this type of diplomacy has a particular importance,” said Elba Rosa Pérez Montoya, Minister of Science, Technology and Environment of Cuba, in a high-level session of the 2nd CTBT Science Diplomacy Symposium at the Vienna International Centre. “The challenges that define the 21st century such […]
Why 79 ACP Countries and EU Must Enter Into New Partnership
By Robert Johnson BRUSSELS | LOMÉ (ACP-IDN) – The Cotonou Partnership Agreement (CPA) between the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of 79 States and 28 European Union (EU) members expires on February 29, 2020. Formal negotiations for a successor Agreement should commence by August 2018. With a view to underpinning preparations and execution of […]
107 ACP-EU Countries Walk The Talk On Global Governance
By Robert Johnson BRUSSELS | LOMÉ (ACP | IDN) – African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and the European Union will walk the talk on global governance by organising joint activities during United Nations conferences this year, according to co-presidents of the Joint ACP-EU Council of Ministers. The Council issued a joint declaration reaffirming its […]
New Disarmament Agenda Recognizes CTBT’s Intrinsic Role
Viewpoint by Izumi Nakamitsu The author is High Representative of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). Following are extensive excerpts from her keynote speech on May 25, 2018 at the High Level Session of the Second Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) Science Diplomacy Symposium from May 21-June 1, 2018 in Vienna. – The Editor. […]
79 ACP Ministers Meeting in Lomé to Discuss Strategy for New Accord with EU
By Robert Johnson BRUSSELS (ACP-IDN) – Seventy-nine African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries are set to speak with one voice as they prepare to adopt a negotiating mandate for a pact with the European Union (EU) after the Cotonou Agreement expires in February 2020. ACP Government Ministers will convene on May 27 for preparatory discussions […]
CTBTO Must Credibly Confirm Dismantling & Closure of DPRK Nuclear-Weapon Test Site
By Tariq Rauf * While North Korea has invited journalists from a handful of countries to witness the dismantling and closure of its nuclear-weapon test site at Punggye Ri, only the Vienna-based Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) has the required expertise, verification technology and credibility to confirm the closure of the Punggye Ri test site. […]
European Development Fund Comes to Rescue as Backyard Schools Swamp Africa
By Jeffrey Moyo HARARE (ACP-IDN) – Enrolment in primary education in developing countries has reached 91 per cent but 57 million children remain out of school. More than half of children that have not enrolled in school live in 48 countries from Sub-Saharan Africa, which are members of the 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific Group […]
ACP Facility Helps Fight Energy Hunger in Southern Africa
By Jeffrey Moyo MWENEZI (IDN) – Sixty-seven-year old Sarudzai Msipa heavily blows air in and out of her mouth, seated in the open-air on a goat skin mat outside her hut as she battles to revive a dying fire on her cooking place set up in the middle of her yard at her remote home […]
From Nairobi to Brussels with New Impulses for ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
By Devendra Kamarajan NAIROBI (ACP-IDN) – Members of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly from the East Africa Region of the ACP Group and their European Parliament counterparts have called for aiming at “stronger South-South and triangular cooperation and maintenance of the ACP Group’s unity and solidarity” in a successor treaty to the Cotonou Agreement that expires […]
Commitment to Renewed ACP-EU Partnership Welcomed
By Robert Johnson BRUSSELS | NAIROBI (ACP-IDN) – The co-presidents of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) have welcomed the commitment of the 79-nation African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States and the 28-nation European Union (EU) to negotiate a successor Agreement to the ACP-EU Cotonou Partnership Agreement. The 15th Regional Meeting of the […]