Brussels, 07/06/2013 (Agence Europe) - Somalia's request to sign up to the Cotonou Agreement was accepted, on Friday 7 June, by the ministers of ACP states (Africa/Caribbean/Pacific) and their EU partners meeting in Brussels at the ACP-EU Council. During two decades of civil war, Somalia, an ACP country, remained on the sidelines of the development partnership agreement that links the European Union to 79 ACP states.
Describing this new result as the most important of the ACP-EU Council...