Press Release: Commissioner Piebalgs in Burkina Faso to attend the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific States’ signature of the revised Cotonou Partnership Agreement

On 22 June 2010, Commissioner Piebalgs attended the joint EU-ACP Council of Ministers in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The EU and 79 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) States signed the revised Cotonou Partnership Agreement, which was initialled on 19 March 2010. They adopted the joint statements on the Millennium Development Goals and on climate change. This should strengthen the EU and ACP countries position in the upcoming international negotiations, such as the UN High Level Summit on MDGs in New York in September and the UN Climate change conference in Cancun in December. As part of the bilateral visit, Commissioner Piebalgs met with President Compaoré and inaugurated the "avenue of Europe" in Ouagadougou.