Below: PAP president Moussa Idriss Ndele
the Pan-African Parliament in progress in mid-May.
The 4th Ordinary Session of
The Pan-African Parliament
1. Condemns the military aggression of NATO forces in the bombing of public facilities, infrastructure, and residential sites and the targeted assassination of national leaders.
2. Requests the international community to stop this aggression immediately to allow the people of Libya the chance for better understanding and opening of dialogue.
3. Calls for solidarity with Libya in the face of the abuses by the NATO forces…
4. Appreciates the African Initiative in seeking a peaceful solution to the crisis in Libya instead of going around it. [The PAP, therefore] endorses the African solution to the Libyan problem.
As such, it is not just Dr Ndele who
stresses the need for legislative powers to be given to the PAP. Civil society or- ganisations across the continent have also been critical too. Tey say that without such a mandate, the PAP will never play a meaningful role and will therefore remain irrelevant to the needs of Africa. “Te PAP faces many hurdles,” said a
African Parliament came earlier than it should have.”
“Maybe the Pan-
civil society leader form Ghana who asked not to be identified. “Among them is the critical and core issue that this Assembly does not have the capacity to enforce any of the decisions that the debate inside the Assembly comes up with. Te so-called MPs can do nothing more than their lim- ited consultative and advisory role to the executive body of the African Union. And the fact that the PAP members are not directly elected but nominated by their
5. Reaffirms its support for the convening of an extraordinary summit of the African Union on 25-26 May to discuss the status of peace and security in Africa and in particular the situation in Libya.
6. Encourages the convening of a session of the UN General Assembly to consider NATO’s action of overstepping all boundaries with regards to the Security Council Resolutions on Libya.
7. Condemns the media’s evil propaganda which Libya is facing, and calls on all media organs in the African continent and all over the world to play their part in the transfer of the true reality of the events in Libya.
8. Decides to dispatch a Parliamentary fact-finding mission at the end of the ongoing session and submit its report to the Bureau of PAP and then to PAP, which will convene in an Extraordinary Session [to discuss the report].
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