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"Euro-mediterranean Assembly to
discuss intercultural dialogue"
The Euro Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly Bureau
yesterday welcomed the proposal of the President of the
European Parliament, Hans-Gert Poettering, to include
the intercultural dialogue as a main topic of the next
Euro Med plenary session to be held in Tunis 16 and 17
March.
“Dialogue between cultures is the way to build real
bridges. That is why I have proposed it as a main topic
of the next plenary sitting”, declared the President of
the European Parliament and Vice-president of the
Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) Hans-Gert
Poettering.
The Bureau of the EMPA met yesterday afternoon in the
Tunisian Parliament to decide the agenda of the next
session of the Assembly. During the meeting it was also
proposed to hold an extraordinary meeting in Cairo in
June to examine the situation in the Middle East and the
possibility of an EMPA delegation to the region.
The meeting was chaired by Mr Fouad Mbazaa, President of
the Tunisian Chamber of Deputies. Other participants
included the EMPA Vice-Presidents Ms Anna Benaki,
President of the Hellenic Parliament (and next President
of the EMPA), Dr. Ahmed Fathi Sorour, President of the
People's Assembly of Egypt and Hans-Gert Poettering,
President of the European Parliament.
The third ordinary session of the EMPA will take place
in Tunis on the 16 and 17 March and will bring together
deputies from both sides of the Mediterranean. In
addition to Intercultural Dialogue they will also
discuss the challenge of employment in the Euro
Mediterranean region.
The dialogue of cultures is one of the priorities of Mr
Poettering's mandate as President of the European
Parliament which he will highlight in his Inaugural
Speech to Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday 13
February. |