SUMMARY REPORT OF THE PLENARY SESSION OF DECEMBER 14, 2022

The year two thousand and twenty-two, on the fourteenth day of December, senators met in the hemicycle of the Senate in Gitega for the 115^th plenary session of the sixth legislature for the presentation of reports concerning the work missions carried out abroad during the parliamentary recess in November 2022.

This session, which was chaired by the Speaker of the Senate, Right Honourable Emmanuel SINZOHAGERA, was attended by 31 senators. The session began as usual, with a prayer at 10:15 a.m.

Proceeding to the opening of the session, the Speaker of the Senate first welcomed all the senators present and gave the floor directly to the Honourable senators so that they could present the reports resulting from the missions carried out, starting with the members of the Bureau.

The reports presented during this plenary session are the following:

• Report of the 61^st session of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the 42^nd session of the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly held from October 25 to November 2, 2022, in Maputo, Republic of Mozambique, which was presented by Honourable Denise NDADAYE, First Deputy- Speaker  of the Senate;

• Report of the 145^th General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) which took place in Kigali, Rwanda from 11 to 15 October 2022 under the general theme: “Gender equality and gender-sensitive parliaments: drivers of change for a more resilient and peaceful world ” which was presented by Honourable Cyriaque NSHIMIRIMANA, Second Deputy -Speaker  of the Senate;

• Report of the missions carried out by Burundian parliamentarians to the Pan-African Parliament in South Africa, presented by the Honourable NIBIRANTIJE Jean Marie;

• Mission report to the 12^th edition of the Interparliamentary Games (IPG) organized by the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) of South Sudan, which took place in in Juba, South Sudan, from November 25 to December 02, 2022 which was presented by Honourable NJIJI Désiré;

• Mission Report of the Peer Learning Workshop for the Parliamentary Gender Committee of ICGLR Member States, held from 17 to 18 November 2022 in Naïrobi, Kenya which was presented by Honourable NYIRANEZA Joséphine;

• Mission Report on Peer Learning Workshop on Sharing Experiences and Improving Skills of Political Parties in Developing Gender Responsive Policies to Strengthen Women’s Representation in EMBs, Held in Naïrobi, Kenya on November 24, 2022 presented by Honourable Jean Bosco BARUTWANAYO; and

• Mission report on the APF regional parliamentary seminar on the theme of gender-responsive budgeting, held in Libreville, Gabon from November 29 to 30, 2022, presented by Honourable Jean Bosco KURISANSUMA.

At the end of the presentation of the report of the 62nd Session of the ACP, the Honourable senators formulated a recommendation related to the organization of a plenary session relating to an oral question which would be addressed to the Minister of the Environment, Agriculture and Livestock on "food sovereignty".

In addition to the items on the agenda, the Speaker of the Senate submitted for adoption to the Honourable Senators the programme of activities planned for the period from December 15 to 29, 2022.

It was with this adoption that the session, which took place in an atmosphere of mutual understanding, was closed with a prayer at 13:45.