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The 15th meeting of COMPSUD (the Circle of Mediterranean Parliamentarians for Sustainable Development) was held on 22 October 2025 in Cairo, within the Mediterranean Stakeholder Forum on Environment and Climate Action – “Making the Behavioural Shift Happen: NGOs/CSOs, Parliamentarians, Journalists, Women and Youth Organisations, and Other Actors Meet in Cairo”. The Forum, that took place from 21 to 23 October, was co-organized by the EU-funded WES BCA project and the GEF-funded MedProgramme implemented by UNEP/MAP.
COMPSUD was represented in the high-level opening of the Forum through interventions by MP Ms. Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, Greek Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for the Ocean and Member of the Hellenic Parliament, and Ms. Noha Zaki, former Senator of the Egyptian Senate. Their interventions highlighted the role of parliamentarians in addressing the interconnected challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, and stressed the importance of regional cooperation frameworks in the Mediterranean.
The administrative COMPSUD session took place as a working lunch and constituted the first formal in-person meeting of the Circle since 2019, when it last convened in Rabat, Morocco, back-to-back with the Mediterranean Dialogue on “Launching a New Decade of Sustainable Development in the Mediterranean” (16–18 December 2019).
Professor Michael Scoullos, Executive Secretary of COMPSUD, presented the Circle’s mandate, activities, and synergies. He highlighted the uniqueness of COMPSUD as an open and flexible platform enabling parliamentarians to act independently, beyond party affiliations or institutional constraints, and in full synergy with NGOs and the other regional Circles facilitated by MIO-ECSDE and GWP-Med. He underlined that COMPSUD brings together parliamentarians from across the Mediterranean, representing diverse political backgrounds and professional experiences, united by a shared commitment to sustainable development in the region.
During this session, the new Chairperson of COMPSUD for the period November 2025–November 2027, Ms. Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, was unanimously elected. The other Board members are: Ms Randa Alkhouz (Jordan), Dr. Najat Saliba (Lebanon), Dr. Fadhel Ben Tourkia (Tunisia). In addition, following the Circle’s reinvigoration, all new members were formally confirmed.
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