constituteproject.org • Legislative oversight of the executive PDF generated: 04 Jan 2016, 20:27 Article 60 The Government periodically renders account on its activity action and its management to the National Assembly. The National Assembly has for the exercise of its rights of information and control, the following means:   1. oral or written questions;   2. parliamentary commissions of inquiry;   3. interpellation of the Government;   4. the annual debate on the state of the Nation. One sitting per two weeks is reserved by priority to the questions of the Deputies to the members of the Government. The procedure of interpellation of the Government or of one or of several Ministers may only intervene at the initiative of at least ten Deputies. It is made the object of a special sitting, on a date established by the Bureau of the Assembly. The debate can be followed by a vote of the Assembly on the resolution proposed by the authors of the interpellation. At the opening of each session, the Prime Minister makes a report to the Assembly on the situation of the country, the achievements of the Government and the grand orientations of the governmental policy. His presentation is followed by a debate. The internal regulations of the National Assembly specify the conditions for the implementation of these different procedures. Article 61 • Power to declare/approve war The declaration of war is authorized by the National Assembly meeting specially to this effect. The President of the Republic informs the Nation of it by a message. • Emergency provisions The state of siege and the state of urgency are decreed in the Council of Ministers. • Emergency provisions The prolongation of the state of siege or the state of urgency beyond fifteen days may not be authorized without the prior consent of the National Assembly. • Treaty ratification Article 62 • International law • International organizations The peace treaties, the commercial treaties, the treaties or agreements concerning international organizations, the which treaties engage the finances of the State, those which concern the status of persons, and those which involve cession, exchange or acquisition of territory may only be ratified or approved by virtue of a law. • International law The ratification or the approval of an international engagement containing a clause contrary to the provisions of this Constitution may intervene only after the revision of it. • Accession of territory • Referenda • Secession of territory No cession, no acquisition of territory is valid without the consent of the people who decide by means of referendum. Djibouti 1992 (rev. 2010) Page 14