{"id":44685,"date":"2021-10-26T13:31:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/minister-biruta-holds-talks-with-counterparts-on-sidelines-of-au-eu-ministerial\/"},"modified":"2021-10-28T08:11:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T08:11:04","slug":"minister-biruta-holds-talks-with-counterparts-on-sidelines-of-au-eu-ministerial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/minister-biruta-holds-talks-with-counterparts-on-sidelines-of-au-eu-ministerial\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Biruta holds talks with counterparts on sidelines of AU-EU ministerial meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting brings together foreign affairs ministers from both continents to discuss COVID-19 response and recovery as well as building resilience.  <\/p>\n<p>Ministers attending the meeting on 25th and 26th October 2021, are expected to exchange views on the EU-AU partnership and how to strengthen cooperation. <\/p>\n<p>Discussions will also revolve around various topics including the response to and recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic as well as building resilience.<\/p>\n<p>Other areas of interest are investing in the digital and green transitions, peace, security and global governance, migration and mobility, education, science, technology and skills development.<\/p>\n<p>The ministers who held talks with Dr. Biruta on Monday 25th October 2021 include his counterpart of Denmark, Danemark, Jeppe Kofod; Gordan Grli\u0107 Radman of Croatia; Christophe Lutundula of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Gen Jeje Odongo of Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Biruta also met with Martin Tlapa, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Czech Republic and Poland Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marcin Przydacz. <\/p>\n<p>Discussions revolved around deepening bilateral relations and cooperation, strengthening political and economic cooperation, cooperation in education, trade and climate change.  <\/p>\n<p>As she opened the AU-EU ministerial meeting on Monday; the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Clementine Mukeka said that it is an occasion to strengthen existing cooperation and explore new potential areas. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt also an opportunity to reflect on the AU-EU relationship and propose areas for improvement,\u201d she stressed.  <\/p>\n<p>Africa and the European Union enjoy partnership in different development areas.  <\/p>\n<p>Figures from EU show that Europe exported goods worth Euro 124 billion to Africa while Africa\u2019s exports to EU are estimated at Euro 101 billion in 2020.   <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39863 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/drc-3.jpg\" alt=\"Minister Biruta holding talks with his counterpart of DRC. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39866 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/croatia-2.jpg\" alt=\"Minister Biruta with his counterpart of Croatia.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39865 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/denmark.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Biruta also held talks with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39864 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/poland.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39867 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/discus.jpg\" alt=\"Discussions revolved around deepening bilateral relations and cooperation, strengthening political and economic cooperation, cooperation in education, trade and climate change.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Vincent Biruta has held talks with his counterparts from different countries who are in Rwanda for the African Union-European Union ministerial meeting.}  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-44685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44685"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44685"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}