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This masters thesis discusses the recently concluded treaty between the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries on the one hand and the European Union (EU) on the other. This Agreement having signed in Cotonou, Benin, is known as the Cotonou Agreement. The Cotonou Agreement is the latest in a series of conventions between the two parties that have their genesis in the late 1950s. The primary goal of this work was to find out to what extent, if at all, the newly signed Agreement is likely to contribute to the economic renaissance of the ACP countries. In so doing it traces development of the ACP-EU conventions right from their very beginning. The performance of the relationship to date is examined with a view to determining whether the lessons learnt therefrom have been incorporated in the new Agreement. There is a detailed analysis of the trade and aid provisions of the Cotonou Agreement. Apart from the economic provisions, other major provisions and developments of the ACP-EU Conventions are discussed with a view to providing a wholesome picture.

Actions and accomplishments of the 1997 summit meetings of the Commonwealth Heads of Government in Edinburgh, Scotland, Oct. 24-27, the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) group in Libreville, Gabon, Nov. 6-7, and the Francophone group in Hanoi, Vietnam, Nov. 14-16.

Considers the rationale and possible ways of reforming Stabex, the plan set up by the Lomé Conventions to stabilize agricultural export revenues; argues for reconciliation of the system's two initial principles, swift, automatic Stabex transfers and agricultural aims, and for an agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states and the European Commission. Summary in English p. 231-2.

On a cultural level, Cuba is all the rage these days. On an economic level, trade and investment links between the European Union and Cuba are also stronger than they have been at any time. This dynamism in cultural and economic ties contrasts sharply with the frosty political relationship between Cuba and the EU. (Courier/DÜI)

Developments in economic and financial relations between the European Union and South Africa, since the South African elections of Apr. 1994. Summary in English. Includes proposal for a free trade agreement, South African adhesion to Lomé Convention IV, governing aid to African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries, and implications of the southern Africa's regional economic groups.

THE SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION OF THE EU/ACP NEGOTIATIONS OVER A SUCCESSOR TO THE LOME IV CONVENTION IS A TIMELY ANTIDOTE TO SEATTLE AND A MODEL OF FUTURE NORTH/SOUTH RELATIONS. THE NEW TREATY IS TO LAST 2O YEARS. REGIONAL INTEGRATION IS TO BE A FEATURE OF THE NEW RELATIONSHIP. AGREEMENT TO INTRODUCE GOOD GOVERNANCE AS A FUNDAMENTAL ELECTION CONTINUES.

This paper considers the issues involved in the Lomé Convention's trade preference system and what possible avenues are available to the European Union (EU) and the seventy-one African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states in assuring the World Trade Organisation (WTO) compatibility of the post-Lomé trade arrangement. The implicit assumption behind the analysis is that the EU still wishes to maintain the trade preference arrangements or the political and economic relations that currently exist between the ACP and the EU. There is ample evidence that the EU has greatly diminished political and economic interests in the continuation of this trade regime which maintains the ACP states at the peak of its 'pyramid of EC trade privilege'.