THE DAY IN POLITICS
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Council is in contact with ACPs for finding somewhere other than Fiji for signing Lomé Convention - Uffe Ellemann-Jensen heads mission of electoral observers in Zimbabwe
Brussels, 22/05/2000 (Agence Europe) - During the working luncheon of the General Affairs Council this Monday, the foreign ministers mainly tackled the following issues (especially that on financial perspectives. See following pages):
- Signing of Lomé Convention. Council President Jaime Gama confirmed that, following the political troubles in the Fiji islands, the EU had contacted the secretariat of the ACP countries "with a view to finding another place for signing the ACP/EU...