The AU Executive Council proposed a joint EU-Africa Council of Ministers to take place in Cairo at the end of November in order to prepare the Lisbon Summit and most likely approve the joint EU-Africa Strategy and examine the political declaration before it is submitted to the Heads of States and Governments. This meeting would take place in November just before the Summit. This proposal still needs to be discussed with the European Union. The EU-Africa Ministerial Troika (only assembling the two Commissions and respective Presidencies) planned to be held in Accra on 31 October will have already examined a very advanced version of the Strategy. For all dates of the institutional negotiations, see the calendar.
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