00:00The Cotonou Agreement between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states has been signed.
00:05on June 23, 2000 in the economic capital of Benin, after the expiration of the WEO Convention.
00:11Concluded for 20 years, this agreement, reviewed every 5 years, brings together the 79 states of the ACP group and the
00:1628 countries of the European Union, 27 now, representing a total population of over 700 million people.
00:22Due to its expiry in 2020, a replacement agreement has been under negotiation since September 2018, a
00:29A political agreement on the content of this new partnership was reached in December 2020 between the EU and the
00:34'Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States.
00:37This post-Cotonou agreement was initialed on April 15, 2021, and finally signed in 2023; it is called the Agreement
00:43from Samoa.
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