AU Summit

President Tebboune decides to allocate USD1 billion to fund development project in Africa
 
ADDIS ABABA- President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune has decided to allocate USD1 billion to the Algerian Agency of International Cooperation for Solidarity and Development, in order to fund development projects in the African countries.
 
In a speech read on his behalf by Prime Minister Aïmene Benabderrahmane, during the 36^th African Union Heads of State and Government Summit, whose works are underway in Addis Ababa, the President of the Republic affirmed that this move comes from “Algeria’s conviction that the security and stability in Africa are linked to development.”
 
“ I have decided to inject one billion dollars into the Algerian Agency of International Cooperation for Solidarity and Development to fund development projects in the African countries, notably the projects of integration or those contributing to the acceleration of development in Africa,” said President Tebboune.
 
The Agency will start the procedures for the implementations of this strategic initiative in coordination with the African countries that want to benefit from it.
 
Lamamra discusses, in Addis Ababa, with several European, Australian officials
 
ALGIERS- Minister of Foreign Affairs and National community Abroad Ramtane Lamamra held on Saturday, in Addis Ababa, discussions with officials from Europe and Australia as part of his participation in the African Union Summit within a delegation led by Prime Minister Aimene Benabderrahmane, in his capacity as representative of President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune, the ministry said in a statement.
 
Lamamra had meetings with Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa, President of the European Council Charles Michel and Australian Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs Tim Watts, said the source.
 
Lamamra examined with Portugal’s Prime minister the Algerian-Portuguese relations and their promising prospects.
 
Costa affirmed that “he aspires to participate personally in the next events between the two countries bound by the Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighborliness and Cooperation since 2005.”
 
With the President of the European Council Charles Michel, Lamamra discussed “the issues related to the partnership between Algeria and the European Union (EU) as well as ways to strengthen it in accordance with the principle of the balance of interests.”
 
Lamamra agreed with Australian Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs Tim Watts to “to support each other for the candidacy of the two countries in international organizations to which they belong and exchange views on the situation prevailing in the Sahel-Saharan region.”
 
Fight against climate change: President Tebboune calls on African countries to reconsider priorities
 
ADDIS ABABA- President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune affirmed Saturday, in Addis Abeba, that the African countries must reconsider their priorities in terms of the fight against the climate change “as a continent with a common fate.”
 
The current situation requires from the African countries to be conscious about the challenges they are facing in this field, “so that we can redefine our priorities as a continent with a common fate,” said President of the Republic in an address on the report of the Committee of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change, read on his behalf by Prime Minister Aïmene Benabderrahmane, on the occasion of the 36th AU Heads of State and Government Summit.    
 
In his address where he insisted on the African strategy of the fight against climate change in anticipation of the next international events, the President of the Republic underlined that “far from any value judgment on the success or not of the COP-27, we must understand the strategic transformation that the developed countries aspired to, namely the restructuration of the international framework of the climate action far from the Rio Principles guaranteeing to the emerging countries their right to development.”
 
The President of the Republic underscored also the breach by the African continent’s partners of their financial commitments in accordance with “The Paris Agreement,” while the African courtiers are called to bear more than their capacity, which could “endanger our food and energy security.”
 
As regards the financing of adaptation, losses and damage related to climate change, “the President of the Republic gave instructions to grant equal importance to this issue during the negotiation process as part of the framework agreement through convincing results.”
 
“We have noticed that the developed countries’ vision on the issues of increasing financing for the adaptation and losses involves a significant exclusion and limits the possibility for a huge number of States of obtaining funding,” he said.
 
“If we have taken the initiative, at the continental level,  to create an African mechanism of protection against the risks of disasters and of support to the adaptation strategy to accompany the African countries in their efforts in the face of these phenomena, we have to make the same efforts to ensure an effective international support of these two priorities,” said President of the Republic.
 
Concerning the fair transition, notably energy, President Tebboune reaffirmed the importance of “adopting a process that enables the harmonization of climate requirements with the priorities of fighting against poverty and guaranteeing a decent life for our peoples, by rejecting the widespread concept according to which there is only one process to achieve this transition.”
 
 
AU Summit: Approach unifying Africa, making its voice heard
ADDIS ABABA (African Union)- Prime Minister Aymen Benabderrahmane said Sunday, in Addis Ababa, that African leaders are working for the establishment of an approach to unify Africa and make its voice heard on the international stage regarding global problems, mainly those having a direct impact on the continent's countries.
In an address, on the sidelines of the 36^th AU Summit of Heads of State and Government, the Prime Minister said "African leaders are working for the unification of the African voice so that the continent's problems are settled by the Africans," and "for its points of view to be heard concerning the problems facing the world, especially those with a direct impact on the continent."
Those global problems, impacting supply chains and raw materials, "have significant repercussions on the budgets of African countries suffering from the debt crisis, the main obstacle to real development today," Benabderrahmane.
Algeria, which has no foreign debts but has mechanisms to achieve a greater balance, is ready to help the African brothers, the prime minister said.
The African Summit "is an opportunity to set out Algeria's vision on the activation of peace and security mechanisms to achieve stability for the continent's countries."
 
 
AU Summit: Prime minister receives Minister of State of Emirati Foreign Affairs Ministry
 
ADDIS ABABA- Prime Minister Aïmene Benabderrahmane received n Saturday, in his residence in Addis Ababa, Sheikh Shakhbut Bin Nahyan Bin Mubarek Al Nahyan, Cabinet Member and Minister of State in the Emirati Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
 
The meeting enabled discussing “the reality and prospects of Algerian-Emirati relations and underlined the two countries’ willingness to strengthen the bilateral cooperation in several fields.”
 
 
The audience was held on the sidelines of the participation of the Prime minister, as a representative of President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune, in the 36th African Union Heads of State and Government, whose works will wrap up on Sunday.