{"id":8704,"date":"2026-02-11T06:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/?p=8704"},"modified":"2026-02-16T06:16:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:16:57","slug":"preparations-for-the-48th-ordinary-session-of-the-executive-council-and-the-39th-ordinary-session-of-the-african-union-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/preparations-for-the-48th-ordinary-session-of-the-executive-council-and-the-39th-ordinary-session-of-the-african-union-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparations for the 48th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council and the 39th Ordinary Session of the African Union Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of the preparations for the 48th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of Ministers and the 39th Ordinary Session of the African Union Conference, His Excellency Ambassador Edouard BIZIMANA, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration, and Development Cooperation, organized a strategic briefing on February 10, 2026, at the Burundian Embassy in Addis Ababa. This event brought together all Burundian diplomats accredited in Addis Ababa as well as members of the national delegation. The main objective of this meeting was to harmonize Burundi&#8217;s positions on various topics to be addressed during the summits, while fine-tuning the agenda for the summit of Heads of State and the Executive Council.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8707 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ph-addis-1-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ph-addis-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ph-addis-1-1024x767.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ph-addis-1-768x575.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ph-addis-1-1536x1150.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ph-addis-1-2048x1534.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This meeting also served to strengthen diplomatic coordination and emphasize the importance of the African Union&#8217;s theme for the year 2026, which is \u2018\u2019Ensuring<br \/>\nthe sustainable availability of water and safe sanitation systems to achieve the goals of Agenda 2063.\u2019\u2019 This topic holds strategic significance for sustainable development and the prosperity of the entire African continent. By focusing on these crucial issues, Burundi reaffirms its commitment to contributing to collective solutions to environmental and social challenges, while placing the expectations of its population at the heart of regional discussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As part of the preparations for the 48th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of Ministers and the 39th Ordinary Session of the African Union Conference, His Excellency Ambassador Edouard BIZIMANA, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration, and Development Cooperation, organized a strategic briefing on February 10, 2026, at the Burundian Embassy in Addis &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8704","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\/8704","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=8704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8708,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions\/8708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}