ICAPP Update (25-41): MOUs between ICAPP and COPPPAL, and between ICAPP and APPI

Dear Distinguished Members of the ICAPP Standing Committee,

This is to inform you that the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Exchange of Observers and Cooperation between the ICAPP and the COPPPAL, Permanent Conference of Political Parties in Latin America and the Caribbean, was signed on August 11, 2025. The MOU was signed by Hon. Chung Eui-yong, Chairman of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Hon. Alejandro Moreno Cardenas, President of the COPPPAL and President of the PRI, Institutional Revolutionary Party of Mexico.

The MOU on Exchange of Observers and Cooperation between the ICAPP and the APPI, African Political Parties Initiative, was also signed on August 12, 2025 between Chairman Chung Eui-yong of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Hon. Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe, Chairman of the Advisory Board and Executive Council of the Africa Governance Center (AGC), and Special Envoy of the President of South Africa, on behalf of the APPI. The AGC is currently functioning as the temporary Secretariat of the APPI.

Both MOUs were signed on the occasion of Africa Political Parties Summit (APPS) 2025 held in Accra, Ghana during August 12-14, 2025, and copies of them are attached herewith.

The APPS 2025, which had formally launched the APPI, was attended by representatives of 44 political parties from 27 countries in Africa, and about 20 special guests, including Chairman Chung and Hon. Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Co-Chairman and Special Rapporteur of the ICAPP Standing Committee.

A more detailed report on the outcome of the participation by the ICAPP mission will be provided in due course.

With warm regards,

Oh Song
Secretary-General
(August 21, 2025)

Attachments: As stated