ACP Institutions
The Meeting of ACP members of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly is the organisation of ACP Parliamentarians who are members of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA). The JPA is a joint Assembly which brings together an equal number of ACP and EU Parliamentarians. The meeting of ACP members acts as an advisory assembly of the Group.
Signing of the Charter to create the ACP Consultative Assembly
On 15 April 2005, 27 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries signed the Charter creating the ACP Consultative Assembly at an official Ceremony presided over by Mrs. Sharon Hay-Webster, ACP Co-President of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly, at the Conference Centre in Bamako. The Charter effectively brings the Assembly into existence, thereby providing an institutional framework for the work of the ACP Parliamentarians. The Assembly is not a new structure, but rather the formalisation and re-affirmation of the existing inter-parliamentary cooperation mechanism within the ACP Group, as provided for in Article 18 of the Georgetown Agreement.
List of the 27 countries signatory to the Charter of the ACP Consultative Assembly by 15 April 2005:
Angola – Botswana – Burkina Faso – Burundi – Congo-Brazzaville – Cook Islands – Cuba – Eritrea – Guinea – Ghana – Jamaica – Kenya – Madagascar – Malawi – Mali – Papua New Guinea – Rwanda – Dominica – Dominican Republic – St. Kitts and Nevis – St. Lucia – St. Vincent and the Grenadines – Samoa – Seychelles – Solomon Islands – South Africa - Uganda
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