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(Special for CAFS) Senegal urges ECOWAS states to sign economic agreement with EU

Xinhua, April 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

Senegal President Macky Sall on Thursday urged member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) that have not yet signed the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU), to do so quickly to allow 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," Sall said.

"All is not finished," he continued, calling for prompt implementation of what has been agreed.

Speaking of relations between ACP and EU, the Senegalese president pointed out that "it was a unique example of North-South partnership guided by an organized 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 added. Enditem