The Council of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the 27 member states will be convened today and tomorrow in Luxembourg to prepare the summit of the heads of state and government of 15th and 16th October in Brussels. Ss to the world financial crisis that will be the main focus of the summit, the meeting will consider the decisions taken by Ecofin last week and those taken by the EU Group on 12th October. Bernard Kouchner, head of the French diplomacy, will chair the meeting, which will also have to "take stock of the current negotiations on the energy-climate package, in the run-up to the European Council of next December". In addition, the European leaders, at the summit, will hear "a report by the Irish Prime Minister, Brian Cowen, about the Lisbon Treaty, will take stock of the ratifications and the options available to resolve, from today to the end of the French presidency, the situation created by the Irish vote against". In addition, the summit will be called to adopt the European Pact on Immigration and Asylum, "one of the four priorities listed by the French Presidency". The Ministers of Foreign Affairs will then speak of the situation in Georgia to prepare "the donor conference" planned in Brussels on 22nd October.” “
