Senegal President Macky Sall on
Friday urged member states of the Economic Community of West African States
(ECOWAS) that had not yet signed the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with
theEuropean Union (EU) to do so quickly to enable the agreement to come into
force.
“I want to appeal to ECOWAS
member states that have not yet signed, to do so as soon as possible to enable
EU-ECOWAS EPA to come into force,” he said.
Sall was speaking in Dakar during
the opening of the 41st session of Ministerial Council of
Africa-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) with EU.
“We have spent much time and
considerable efforts to negotiate and adopt these strategic frameworks of our
future cooperation.
“We must embrace the spirit of
compromise that guided the process.
“All is not finished,’’ Sall
said, and called for prompt implementation of what had been agreed upon.
Speaking on relations between ACP
and EU, the Senegalese president pointed out that it was a unique example of
North-South partnership guided by an organised and solid institutional
framework in matters of investments, trade and development support.
“Our role is to guarantee the
continuity of history through consolidation of this special relationship in a
rather complex context,” he said.
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