{"id":63416,"date":"2016-02-02T12:36:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T10:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/the-commissioner-for-political-affairs-met-with-the-special-envoy-for-minister-of-foreign-affairs-of-finland\/"},"modified":"2016-02-02T12:36:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T10:36:54","slug":"the-commissioner-for-political-affairs-met-with-the-special-envoy-for-minister-of-foreign-affairs-of-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/the-commissioner-for-political-affairs-met-with-the-special-envoy-for-minister-of-foreign-affairs-of-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"The Commissioner for political affairs met with the special envoy for minister of foreign affairs of Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, February 2, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>H.E. Dr. Aisha Laraba Abdullahi, Commissioner for Political Affairs of the African Union Commission met with H.E. Mr. PekkaOlaviHaavisto, Special envoy for the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland. The Minister was accompanied by a high-level delegation.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p>The Commissioner for Political Affairs welcomed H.E. Mr. Pekka, and thanked him and his delegation for visiting the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) of the African Union Commission (AUC).<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>H.E. Dr. Abdullahi briefed the visiting Delegation on Project 2016, she stressed on the basics rights of Women in Africa as principal targets to be reached in reference to the theme of year 2016.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>H. E. Dr. Abdullah also briefed the visiting Delegation on upcoming elections in Africa.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>H.E. Mr. Pekka personally thanked the Commissioner for her important role and commended the efforts of the AUC which has shown positive improvement on the continent in the areas of governance, democracy and human rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p>H.E. Dr. Abdullahi also responded to some questions on the upcoming election observations as well as the updates on issues on constitutionalism and terms limit in Africa.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>The Special\u00a0 Envoy ended his visit by highlighting\u00a0 the importance\u00a0 of any\u00a0 initiative\u00a0 from\u00a0 the Commission for Political Affairs that\u00a0 aims\u00a0 to engage\u00a0 youth an women\u00a0 participation\u00a0 in politics in Eritrea.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, February 2, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; H.E. Dr. Aisha Laraba Abdullahi, Commissioner for Political Affairs of the African Union Commission met with H.E. Mr. PekkaOlaviHaavisto, Special envoy for the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland. The Minister was accompanied by a high-level delegation. The Commissioner for Political Affairs welcomed H.E. Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-63416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}