{"id":6744,"date":"2024-05-21T04:41:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T04:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/?p=6744"},"modified":"2024-05-21T04:41:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T04:41:16","slug":"celebration-of-the-european-union-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/celebration-of-the-european-union-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration of the European Union Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

On May 9, 2024, the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation Mr Ferdinand Bashikako represented the Government of Burundi in the celebration ceremonies of Europe Day organized by the delegation of the European Union in Burundi.<\/p>\n

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According to Mrs Elisabetta Pietrobon the Ambassador of the European Union to Burundi, the Europe Day celebrates peace and unity every year, on May 9. That date marks the anniversary of the historic declaration made by Mr Robert Schuman, in which he outlined the idea of a new form of political cooperation in Europe, which would make war between the European nations unthinkable. Robert Schuman’s proposal is considered the birth certificate of what is today the European Union.<\/p>\n

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Regarding the diplomatic relations with Burundi, the Ambassador of the African Union to Burundi said that the European Union maintains an unwavering partnership with Burundi, anchored in the shared values and a common vision which materializes through a diverse range of programs and projects in vital sectors, such as health and nutrition, education and training, agriculture and livestock, energy, environment, governance, strengthening civil society, the defense of the human rights, as well as the promotion of gender equality and the emancipation of youth, all aligned with the ambitious vision of the Burundian Government for the future, namely that of horizon 2040-2060. She stressed that the European Union will remain alongside Burundi as its most important bilateral partner to consolidate compliance with certain cooperation agreements.<\/p>\n

In his speech, the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation, Mr Ferdinand Bashikako, pointed out that Burundi and the European Union share a history that their people are far from forgetting. Burundi is proud of having maintained the excellent relations of friendship and cooperation with the European Union and with most of its member states for many years. Those privileged relations for several years, he added, give the European Union a place of choice, that of being the Burundi’s main partner in terms of volume of aid. He affirmed that thanks to the European support, Burundi was able to carry out the significant actions to combat poverty by meeting the urgent needs of the population through the programs and projects of the National Development Plan (revised PND) 2023-2027.<\/p>\n

The Permanent Secretary also emphasized that the Government of Burundi has the wish to win the challenge of eradicating poverty, to lead the country on solid rails to continue moving forward both on the path to peace, security and socio-economic development and to arrive at the much desired stage of his Vision Burundi emerging country in 2040 and developed country in 2060. He ended his speech by requesting the personal involvement of all the Chiefs of diplomatic and consular Missions, all the Representatives of International Organizations and the various other partners, so that participation in the Round Table of development partners planned for a few months to come is massive, active and effective.<\/p>\n

Note that the European Union has decided to deploy its efforts to support the victims of serious floods and landslides. Likewise, at the request of the Government of Burundi, the European Union mobilized a team of experts to assess the situation of disasters and other threats linked to the river overflows and the rising water levels in Lake Tanganyika and make the recommendations. The first conclusions were indeed formulated and discussed with the competent technical services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On May 9, 2024, the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation Mr Ferdinand Bashikako represented the Government of Burundi in the celebration ceremonies of Europe Day organized by the delegation of the European Union in Burundi. \u00a0\u00a0 According to Mrs Elisabetta Pietrobon the Ambassador of the European Union to Burundi, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":6746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6748,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions\/6748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}