African
Union Directorate of Information and Communication has announced that the 33rd
Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African
Union (AU) will take place from 21 January 2020 under the theme: Silencing the
Guns: Creating Conducive Conditions for Africa’s Development.
“All
African Heads of State and Government are expected to attend this 33rd ordinary
session of the African Union owing to recent terrorist attacks in the Sahel
regions and East Africa.”
“The
AU Summit will be hold at its Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia beginning
with the 39th ordinary Session of the Permanent Representatives’ Committee
(PRC) that will include top Gambian diplomats stationed in the Ethiopian
capital from 21 to 22 January 2020.”
“Readers
have to understand that the AU Permanent Representative Committee is a
composition of representatives of State parties to the AU Constitutive Act,
appointed to serve the permanent interest of their governments and their
services are respectively paid for by the local tax payers.”
According
to the press release coming from the AU Directorate of Information and
Communication, the Permanent Representatives’ Committee deliberations is
followed from 6 to 7 February 2010 with 38th Ordinary Session of the Executive
Council.
The
Executive Council is AU body that consists of AU Foreign Affairs Ministers,
coming from all AU member countries that will sit through the 36th Ordinary
Session to analyze, comment and approve the activities of the Permanent
Representatives.
The
climax of the 33rd Ordinary Session is the Assembly of the Heads of States and
Government of the African Union of which His Excellency President Adama Barrow
is expected to represent The Gambia from 9 to 10 February 2020.
The
Gambia populace looks to His Excellency the President to highlight the peaceful
atmosphere that exists in The Gambia between all sectors of society and The
Gambia’s willingness to respect rule of law and denounce terrorisms.
