The Chairman of the Executive Committee of the African Parliamentary Union, Ali Kolotou TCHAIMI, stated that the Union's commitment must also be reflected in its willingness to provide the Union with the financial resources necessary to achieve its objectives.
Also President of the National Assembly of Chad, the speaker, who was addressing the opening ceremony of the 84th session of the Executive Committee, held from 18 to 19 November in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, argued that this session was a crucial moment in the African Parliamentary Union's agenda.
He argued that the Union's commitment must also be reflected in its determination to provide the Union with the financial resources necessary to achieve its objectives.
The Executive Committee is the body responsible for guiding the Union's activities and monitoring the implementation of the decisions, resolutions and recommendations of the Conference of Presidents.
The APU, founded in 1976, aims to promote unity of action among the parliamentary institutions of African states, to establish itself as the forum for national parliaments on the African continent and as an instrument of parliamentary dialogue and cooperation in the service of peace, democracy, good governance and sustainable development.
The organisation also aims to promote contacts between African parliamentarians, on the one hand, and between African parliamentarians and those from the rest of the world, on the other.
The APU has its headquarters in Abidjan and currently has 41 members, namely: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Chad, Togo, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.