The EU and its 71 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) partners

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Series Details 11/02/99, Volume 5, Number 06
Publication Date 11/02/1999
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Date: 11/02/1999

made limited progress towards reforming their trade links at a high-level meeting in Dakar, Senegal this week. Ministers from the two blocs agreed that ACP countries' privileged access to the EU market could not continue indefinitely and that any future trade deal would have to be compatible with World Trade Organisation rules.

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