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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7707

29 April 2000
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) acp/eu
Cuban Foreign Minister explains why candidature withdrawn from EU Partnership Agreement - ACP countries are not resigned

Brussels, 28/04/2000 (Agence Europe) - Cuba has formally withdrawn its request for accession to the new Partnership Agreement between the ACP countries and the European Union, which must be signed on 8 June in Souba (Fiji). The support given by the European Union to a resolution against Cuba, voted by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on 21 April, is the reason for this. The news came yesterday, like a bombshell, to the ACP Committee of Ambassadors, informed of this decision by a...

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