The outcome of the current negotiation process - started under the legal framework of the Cotonou Agreement which is centred on the objective of poverty reduction - will be WTO-compatible regional free trade agreements aimed predominantly at progressive trade liberalisation; this hardly seems to respect the development objectives of the Cotonou Agreement itself.
The outcome of the current negotiation process - started under the legal framework of the Cotonou Agreement which is centred on the objective of poverty reduction - will be WTO-compatible regional free trade agreements aimed predominantly at progressive trade liberalisation; this hardly seems to respect the development objectives of the Cotonou Agreement itself.