ACP Press Release: 15 March 2011

ACP : Press Release: 15 March 2011 – Acting Secretary-General Mr Achille Bassilekin III, Assistant Secretary-General for Sustainable Economic Development and Trade told the 23rd Session of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Parliamentary Assembly that these are challenging times for the ACP Group as a whole – as a number of

ACP Press Release: 11 March 2011 -- The African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Sugar Group has welcomed the adoption of the European Parliament’s report on “Agriculture and International Trade” at its plenary session in Strasbourg on 8th March 2011.

ACP Press Release: 11 March 2011 -- The African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Sugar Group has welcomed the adoption of the European Parliament’s report on “Agriculture and International Trade” at its plenary session in Strasbourg on 8th March 2011.

ACP PRESS RELEASE: 2 March 2011 — The Prime Minister of Togo, Hon Gilbert Houngbo, has become the second ACP leader to address the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) Committee of Ambassadors in less than a month.

 ACP PRESS RELEASE: 17 February 2011 — The President of the Republic of Sierra Leone H.E Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma today addressed the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group Committee of Ambassadors in Brussels.
President Koroma in his speech to the ACP Committee of Ambassadors expressed his country’s commitment to the Group and expressed his appreciation for the important role it plays.

ACP PRESS RELEASE: 4 February 2011 – The African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the World Customs Organisation (WCO) in Brussels, Belgium to facilitate trade among ACP member-States, and accelerate the modernization of customs administrations and coordinate efforts to provide joint trainings and capacity building activities in the ACP States.

Secretary-General Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas signed the MOU with his counterpart from the WCO, H.E Mr. Kunio Mikuriya.

ACP PRESS RELEASE: 2 February 2011: The African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group in partnership with the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) successfully hosted a one-day Symposium on Enhancing South-South Cooperation: Challenges and Opportunities this week in Brussels, Belgium.

ACP PRESS RELEASE: 31 January 2011 – The African, Caribbean and Pacific Group has launched an Ambassadorial Working Group on the Future Perspectives of the ACP Group last week in Brussels, Belgium.

The decision to set-up the Working Group was mandated by the 92nd Session of the ACP Council of Ministers held in Brussels in November 2010, in view of the expiry of the Cotonou Agreement with the European Union by the year 2020.

Press Release for the Participants of the Informal Ministerial Meeting on the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) The representatives of the African, Caribbean and Pacific states (ACP), meeting on January 27, 2011, in a cotton workshop in Geneva have studied the state of the cotton issue at the WTO, including the question of whether to bring this issue before the Dispute Settlement Body.