Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 7:50 PM
Addis Ababa – The 8th Ministerial Meeting of the Specialized Technical Committee (STC) for Justice and Legal Affairs of the African Union (AU) decided, Sunday in Addis Ababa, to postpone the consideration of candidates for the presidency of the Committee at the next session.
There is a disagreement on the presidency of the CTS, of which Morocco is also a candidate, and it was agreed to postpone the examination of the candidatures while waiting to reach a consensus, said the Minister of Justice, Abdellatif Ouahbi at the end of this 8th session.
Thus, the current composition of the CTS office is as follows Presidency: North Africa (vacant), 1st Vice-President: Tanzania (East Africa), 2nd Vice-President: DRC (Central Africa), 3rd Vice- Chair: Zimbabwe (Southern Africa) and Rapporteur: Gambia (West Africa).
“This ministerial session examined several questions but there is a disagreement on an important file, namely the question of nationality and that of stateless persons and the representativeness of African regions at the level of the Bureau, on this point Morocco proposed three members from each region,” the minister said in a statement to the press.
The 8th Ministerial Meeting of the STC considered the review of the revised rules of procedure of the AU Ministerial Committee on African candidatures within the international system, the draft statute of the African training center in statistics (PANSTAT), the draft statutes of the institute of statistics of the african union (STATAFRIC), the statute of the African Humanitarian Agency, the draft legal frameworks for the African Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the draft protocol to “the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on Specific Aspects of the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa”.