19/04/2023 (Agence Europe) – Hungary announced on Wednesday 19 April that it was lifting its reservation to the EU’s signing of the Post-Cotonou Partnership Agreement between the EU and the ACP countries organisation. “We have received all the guarantees for the adoption of the Post-Cotonou Agreement”, Hungarian State Secretary for Diplomacy Zoltan Kovacs said on Twitter. “It seems that finally, two years after the conclusion of negotiations and multiple extensions, an agreement in the EU Council is soon in sight”, welcomed in a press release the Chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on Development, Tomas Tobé, and the Co-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, Carlos Zorrinho (S&D, Portuguese) (see EUROPE 13134/20). On the same day, the Member States’ ambassadors to the EU (Coreper) were to discuss a possible approval of the signature by written procedure. At the time of going to press, the discussion was ongoing. (AN)