British MEP Lord Plumb, co-chairman of the joint EU-ACP assembly, this week called on the EU…

Date: 30/10/1997

...not to abandon the world's poorest countries. Speaking at a key parliamentary meeting in Lomé, he added: “While I am adamant that there must be a new convention, I am equally convinced that it must be a new convention and not merely a marginally adjusted update of Lomé IV.”