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EU’s failure to sign post-Cotonou Agreement was met with incomprehension by ACP parliamentarians at ACP-EU Joint Assembly

Brussels, 02/11/2022 (Agence Europe)

The fact that the EU has still not signed the post-Cotonou Agreement, which was initialled in April 2021, raises questions among parliamentarians from the 79 member countries of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) linked to the EU by the current Cotonou Agreement, which had to be extended until June 2023. 

These concerns were expressed at the 42nd session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA), the political forum of the Cotonou Agreement, which ended...