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(ANSAmed) - BRUSSELS, OCTOBER 13 - The Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) has asked the foreign ministers of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) for more powers as well as the legal basis to sanction its role as their political arm. At a special meeting of the EMPA in Amman, representatives of the parliaments from both sides of the Mediterranean have approved a document to submit to the Euro-Med foreign ministers, who will meet in Marseille on 3 and 4 November: "we will ask ministers to make EMPA an integral part of the UfM, in terms of its parliamentary dimension". The ministers of the UpM must provide the deputies of EMPA - led by the President of the EU Parliament, Hans Gert Poettering - with "a legal basis, setting the nature and the timescale of meetings between the two institutions". EMPA intends to carry out "the role of consultant", which is not binding, but obliges the ministers and heads of state of the UfM to take note of their resolutions and recommendations on the agenda of their meetings. (ANSAmed).