Focusing on the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (ACFTA), the 36th AU Summit will examine ways to find solutions to these difficulties and “this unfavorable context.”
“Despite this adverse context, Africa is showing remarkable signs of resilience and the African Union, in its various components, has maintained its operational momentum in the implementation of programmes and decisions,” assured the Chairperson of the AU Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, at the opening of the 42nd session of the AU Executive Council on the eve of the Summit of Heads of State and Government.
The global food crisis and issues related to the FTAA will be at the heart of this Summit, as the African continent is in search of self-sufficiency and food sovereignty, an objective that cannot be achieved without the effective operationalization of this zone.
The evaluation of the first ten-year implementation plan of Agenda 2063 will also be on the agenda of this Summit, given its importance as an action plan of the Pan-African Organization.
Agenda 2063 “provides an appropriate roadmap for achieving the economic integration and sustainable development that our continent aspires to. In this regard, the lessons learned from the first decade of Agenda 2063, which was a decade of convergence, can only serve to nourish this ambition that drives us for the successful implementation of the second ten-year plan, which is a decade of acceleration,” said for his part the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates, Nasser Bourita, at the 42nd Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the AU.
However, Bourita noted, “the implementation of the aspirations and objectives of the Agenda depends first of all on the commitment of each Member State to invest in its implementation at the national level.”
In this regard, the Kingdom of Morocco, since its return to the African institutional family in 2017, is committed to the implementation of the aspirations of Agenda 2063, the Minister affirmed.
The summit will also discuss the institutional reform of the Union, the state of peace and security on the continent, the granting of a seat to the AU in the G20, the global food crisis, the reform of the UN Security Council, the AU response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the issue of climate change.
