What does JPA stand for?

She was replaced last month and appointed Minister of State with responsibility for Africa, the Caribbean, Central America and the UN, filling a post left vacant after the resignation of Lord Malloch Brown, having cemented her reputation as an expert on the regions during her time as a Member of the European Parliament and as co-president of the African, Caribbean and Pacific-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

The MEPs, who are under fire for travelling to the exotic location and staying at some of the most luxurious hotels, are members of the African Caribbean Pacific-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

The Council of Ministers requested further that the President of Council forward this Resolution to the Council of the EU, EU member states, ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA), European Parliament and the European Commission.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission, the Council, the WTO, the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and the OAU.

This high level contact between the EU and Africa follows the recent ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly held in Abuja in March and the EU is preparing to sign a new convention with ACP countries in Fiji in June.

She was actually co-presiding over the 12th ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, which was invited by the Barbados government to discuss international aid and development.

The MEPs, who are under fire for travelling to the exotic location and staying at some of the most luxurious hotels, are members of the African Caribbean Pacific-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

The ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA), made up of European Union parliamentarians and representatives of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries, meeting in Brussels on 12 October, gave Britain what amounted to a "telling off" over Zimbabwe's land issue.