Deputy Prime Minister Guido De Marco in Bonn to address Conference

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Guido de Marco, left Malta for Bonn this afternoon where he will address the Conference of the Chairpersons of the Foreign Affairs Committees of the Parliaments of the Member States of the European Union.

The theme of Prof. de Marco's address will be "The Euro-Mediterranean partnership in the run-up to the Third Euro-Mediterranean Foreign Ministers' Conference to be held in Stuttgart on 15th - 16th April 1999".

In Bonn, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs will be meeting the State Secretary of the German Federal Foreign Ministry, Dr. Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz. Meetings are also expected to be held with Dr. Wolfgang Sch'?uble, Chairman of the CDU at the Bundeshaus and with Prof. Migone, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Commission of the Italian Senate. The recently published report updating the European Commission's 1993 avis on Malta's application for membership of the European Union is expected to feature prominently in Prof. de Marco's discussions in Bonn.

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is accompanied by Mr. Saviour Falzon and Mr. David Casa, is expected to return to Malta on Wednesday.