Brussels, 03/12/2004 (Agence Europe) - The council of ministers of the 79 ACP countries (African, Caribbean and Pacific states) ended its twenty-fourth AGM in Brussels on Thursday, making a positive assessment of the previous year. Alongside political decisions adopted to help bring peace in Sudan and the Ivory Coast, and resolutions to defend basic ACP commodities jeopardised by reform of the EU's sugar and banana market under pressure from global trade, the Council appointed the new...