Category: APO-OPA

    Statement by EU High Representative, Catherine Ashton, on the situation in Egypt   BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, November 28, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission made today the following statement: “I am deeply concerned about […]

    Statement by EU High Representative, Catherine Ashton and Commissioner Stefan Füle on elections in Morocco   BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, November 28, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission, and Stefan Füle, EU Commissioner for Enlargement […]

    Morocco’s Parliamentary Elections   WASHINGTON, November 28, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Press Statement Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC November 26, 2011     I congratulate the Moroccan people on the successful completion of Friday’s parliamentary elections where millions of Moroccans went to the polls to elect their new political […]

  The African Union is closely monitoring the situation prevailing in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the eve of the elections / The AU calls on all the Congolese political actors to exercise utmost restraint and demonstrate a spirit of responsability   ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, November 28, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Chairperson […]

    AETA and EurAc call for calm ahead of Monday’s elections in the Congo   BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, November 28, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Réseau Agir pour des Elections Transparentes et Apaisées (AETA), and the European Network for Central Africa (EurAc), present in DRC with an electoral observation mission including 90 […]

    Durban: An urgent call for ‘preventive’ international solidarity to fight climate change   GENEVA, Switzerland, November 28, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity, Virginia Dandan, urged ‘old and new polluters’ to take the lead in the climate change negotiations in Durban, South Africa, and […]

    Statement by the Spokesperson of EU High Representative Catherine Ashton on the resumption of negotiations between Sudan and South Sudan in Addis Ababa   BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, November 28, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The spokesperson of Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice […]

    Three Italian nationals detained in Cairo   ROME, Italy, November 28, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The foreign ministry confirmed that the three Italian nationals detained over Friday and Saturday in Cairo were released last night to an Italian facility, where they await departure for Italy. The affair, of whose developments Foreign Minister […]

    Condolences on the death of a cooperation worker in Burundi   ROME, Italy, November 28, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The foreign ministry confirmed the death of an Italian cooperation worker in Burundi in an armed assault against a religious mission in Ngozi. From a reconstruction of the dynamics of the episode, it […]

    Conférence de Durban (28.11-09.12.11) / Les enjeux de COP17   PARIS, France, 25 novembre 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — La 17eme Conférence des Parties (COP) à la Convention des Nations Unies sur le Changement Climatique se tiendra à Durban du 28 novembre au 10 décembre prochains. Elle constitue une nouvelle étape importante des […]