Presiding Officers from 28 member parliaments unanimously agreed to endorse the APKN Charter at the PAP Speakers Conference 2009. APKN was seen as providing an opportunity for Parliaments to share and learn as well as facilitating engagement with the Pan African Parliament.

Dr. Moussa Idriss Ndele President  of PAP in his remarks on APKN noted that its an invaluable tool that African Parliaments and PAP can use to meet the requirements of Article 18 of the Protocol that established PAP. The Protocol requires that PAP  works in close collaboration with Parliaments of the Regional Economic Communities and the National Parliaments or other deliberative organs of member states. PAP was mandated to develop a mechanism to ensure sound and effective contact and the full participation of the peoples of Africa within the integration processes of Africa. He felt that APKN provides valuable opportunity for African parliaments to develop information services to support the exchange of information and also to move the collaboration level to the parliamentary staff that play a supportive but critical role in the domestication of AU Policies.

The APKN they felt would go a long way in ensuring the capacity enhancement and facilitate increased inter parliamentary cooperation necessary for the implementation of PAP resolutions as well as respond to the needs of a closer collaboration and better services that African parliaments have to developed in order to become active protagonists of Africa integration and legislative harmonisation.

For a more detailed outcome of the PAP Speakers Conference read here