EXTERNAL ACTION / Acp

Signed, Samoa Agreement between EU, its Member States and 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries will replace Cotonou Agreement in January

Brussels, 15/11/2023 (Agence Europe)

The Samoa Agreement, a modernised partnership agreement between the EU and its Member States, on the one hand, and the 79 Members of the Organisation of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), on the other, was signed on Wednesday 15 November in Apia (Samoa, Pacific), paving the way for a partnership better adapted to the challenges of the 21st century, at the end of half a century of cooperation under the Lomé Conventions, followed by the Cotonou Agreement signed in 2000 for a...