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"The Joint Parliamentary Assembly or JPA has become a key instrument of political dialogue as well as conflict prevention and resolution.
In situations of political crisis, our ‘urgent debates’ have enabled in-depth, constructive and taboo-free dialogue on the situation in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Mauritania.
On the great North-South ‘horizontal’ challenges, such as food security, effectiveness of state aid, and child labour, in 2008 the JPA adopted constructive, often daring positions.
With regard to implementation of the European Development Fund, the JPA got hold of strategic documents that its economic committee has begun to examine.
The JPA’s agenda has above all, however, been marked by a single political priority, that of Economic Partnership Agreements or EPAs. Its ‘regional meetings’ represent a major asset and undeniable added value for monitoring EPAs.
This added value must now be recognised and honoured. The JPA must be at the heart of the provision of parliamentary control of negotiations and the implementation of agreements.
Finally, I would like to pay tribute here to the work of Co-President Glenys Kinnock. She has succeeded in making the JPA a unique tool for North-South dialogue, and an opportunity for fair, sustainable and mutually supportive development."@en1
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