More time needed for EPA talks - Motlhale

Ahead of the August round of negotiations between the SADC EPA group and the EU, the Acting President of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Parliamentary Assembly says the region should be afforded more time to reach a final decision on a comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement with the EU.

With persuasion from the EU and a December 2007 deadline for negotiations having already elapsed, efforts towards a comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) are being accelerated. In June, the SADC EPA group committed itself to finalising and signing the full EPA by the end of this year.

The group also committed itself to presenting a united front to the EU, marking a departure from the divisions that occurred last June when four out of the seven-nation group signed an interim EPA with the EU.

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