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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9869

26 March 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
Fate of EU/South Korea free trade agreement will be decided on sidelines of G20 summit in London

Strasbourg, 25/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - Henceforth only a ministerial agreement will allow the EU and South Korea to reach a final bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), for which negotiations were begun in May 2007. This was the conclusion reached on Tuesday 24 March in Seoul by European and South Korean negotiators after their 8th and final session of talks. It will therefore be up to Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton and her South Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-hoon, to finalise the FTA...

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