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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8176

21 March 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/gulf cooperation council
Negotiations resume with view to free trade agreement

Brussels, 20/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - After the new mandate issued by the Council to the Commission, a new round of two-day talks between the EU and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries opened in Brussels, on Wednesday, with a view to concluding a free trade agreement. The GCC recently made a significant move forward towards concluding such an agreement by bringing forward to 2003 (instead of 2005) the setting up of customs union between its Member States. The future free trade...

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