On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday 28 September, the two chief negotiators – European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica and Togo's Foreign Affairs Minister Robert Dussey – gave the formal kick-off to the negotiations between the 79 ACP (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) states and the EU for a renewed, updated and more effective partnership after the expiry of the Cotonou Agreement in February 2020.
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