Brussels, 04/02/2000 (Agence Europe) - The ACP/EU Partnership for Development Agreement, which will replace the Lomé Convention upon its expiry on 29 February next, has been concluded for a 20-year duration. This unsurprising result, obtained on Thursday night at the conclusion of the fourth and final ministerial negotiating conference, nevertheless necessitated extremely laborious bargaining over the wording of the clause governing the readmission of illegal immigrants (see yesterday's...