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General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) including Defence Ministers and Development Ministers

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) including Defence Ministers and Development Ministers
Date: 26.05. - 27.05.2008
Venue: Brussels
Policy area: General Affairs and External Relations
Type of event: Council of Ministers
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The June General Affairs and External Relations Council will meet in the so-called "jumbo format", with EU defence and development ministers meeting alongside the EU foreign ministers.

The General Affairs Council, chaired by Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, will focus on the preparations for the June meeting of the European Council. It will briefly examine an annotated draft agenda prepared by the presidency, where the main subjects are the review of the ratification process and progress made in preparatory work on the Lisbon Treaty; freedom, security and justice; policy implications of high food prices; and economic, social and environmental issues, as well as the Western Balkans and other aspects of EU external relations.

The annotated draft agenda will serve as the basis for draft European Council conclusions to be prepared by the presidency.

Video:


http://www.eu2008.si/en/Meetings_Calendar/Dates/May/0526_GAERC.html

Information:

EU-EEA Council, Conclusions  130 KB.

18th EU-GCC Joint Council and Ministerial meeting, joint communiqué  153 KB.

Cooperation Council with the Republic of Moldova, press release  107 KB.

Council approves negotiating directives for a new agreement with Russia  100 KB.

Signature of a protocol to the agreement with the Swiss confederation on the free movement of persons, regarding the participation, as contracting parties, of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania  120 KB.

EC-Turkey Association Council, press release  115 KB.

Cape Verde-EU Ministerial Troika Meeting, Final communique  128 KB.

Summary of remarks by Javier SOLANA  152 KB.

Press Releases:

EU General Affairs and External Relations Council welcomes study on children in armed conflicts.

EU General Affairs and External Relations Council: preparations for the conference on Iraq.

Minister Rupel chairs EU Ministerial Meeting – Gulf Cooperation Council.

EU to double police trainers in EUPOL mission in Afghanistan .

The EU Council welcomes the Doha agreement on Lebanon and promotes the Middle-East Peace Process.

EU General Affairs and External Relations Council assesses elections in Georgia.

EU Council of Ministers approves mandate for negotiating new framework agreement with Russian Federation.

EU Council on Somalia and Zimbabwe.

General Affairs and External Relations Council: the Signing of the SAA with Bosnia and Herzegovina on 16 June; Satisfaction with the Elections in Serbia.

Development Ministers discuss Millennium Goals and situation in Burma/ Myanmar.

Agendas:

Agenda of the General Affairs and External Relations Council: External Relations  131 KB.

Agenda of the General Affairs and External Relations Council: General Affairs  121 KB.

Background Information:

Background information for the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC)  188 KB.

Background information for the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) - Development cooperation issues  106 KB.

Council Conclusions:

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC): Conclusions - EU Action Plan on Agricultural Commodity Chains, Dependence and Poverty and the EU-Africa Partnership in support of Cotton Sector Development  141 KB.

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC): Conclusions - Afghanistan  132 KB.

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC): Conclusions - Middle East Peace Process  128 KB.

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC): Conclusions - Economic Partnership Agreements  163 KB.

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC): Conclusions - ESDP  191 KB.

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC): Conclusions - Georgia  119 KB.

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC): Conclusions - Iraq  124 KB.

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC): Conclusions - Lebanon  122 KB.

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC): Conclusions - Speeding up progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)  266 KB.

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC): Conclusions - Somalia  131 KB.

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC): Conclusions - Western Balkans  116 KB.

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC): Conclusions - Zimbabwe  122 KB.

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC): Conclusions - Development Ministers, press release  138 KB.

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC): Conclusions - External Relations, press release  333 KB.

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC): Conclusions - General Affairs, press release  207 KB.

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC): Conclusions - The promotion and protection of the rights of the child in the European Union's external action - the development and humanitarian dimensions  160 KB.

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC): Conclusions - Burma/Myanmar  120 KB.

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General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) including Defence Ministers and Development Ministers.



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Date: 10.06.2008