Ongoing parliamentary business for the November 2015 Ordinary Session took a step forward on Friday, November 27, 2015 when the Senate, meeting in plenary, received two bills adopted by the National Assembly on November 24, 2015. Soon after chairing the Chairmen’s conference where the bills were declared admissible for second reading, Senate President Marcel Niat Njifenji later chaired the plenary sitting where he announced the arrival of the bills.  

The first of the two bills is to authorise the President of the Republic to ratify the Agreement between the governments of Cameroon and the Republic of Mali relating to the movement of persons and goods. The agreement was signed in Yaounde on September 8, 2015. The second bill is to authorise the President of the Republic to ratify the Convention relating to the Agency for the Safety of Aerial Navigation in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) adopted on January 12, 2010 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and signed on April 28, 2010 in Libreville, Gabon.

Both bills were apportioned to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. The Cameroon-Mali agreement bill will be defended by the Minister of External Relations while the Minister of Transport will defend the ASECNA Convention bill. Before the end of the plenary, Marcel Niat Njifenji announced that six questions had been submitted by Senators for the next question-answer session with cabinet ministers.