Next EU Troika Finalise Development Programme of EU Presidency
Germany, Portugal and Slovenia, which will successively chair the EU from 2007 to mid-2008, on Monday finalised the 18-month presidency programme in the field of development cooperation, the Slovenian Foreign Ministry has said.
The programme was finalised in a meeting of German Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zuel, State Secretary for Bilateral Affairs and Development at the Portuguese Foreign Ministry Joao Gomes Cravinho and State Secretary at the Slovenian Foreign Ministry Bozo Cerar.
The troika's development cooperation programme will focus on the implementation of the European development policy consensus and the Monterey programme, the effectiveness of the bloc's development aid and coherence of development policies and the inclusion of Africa, the Pacific and Caribbean in global economic trends, the press release reads.
Cerar was quoted as saying that Slovenia would endeavour to place special emphasis on women and children in armed conflicts. The participants of the meeting, which was held at Ig, south of Ljubljana, were also briefed on the activities of the International trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victims Assistance (ITF).
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