Guinea: 7th African Trade Network (ATN) Meeting Ends in Conakry

A four-day workshop has ended in Conakry, Guinea. The meeting brought together around twenty-five participants from countries, including Argentina, the Caribbean, and the Netherlands, and with most of them civil society activists. Other participants included one person from the ACP Secretariat, and a consultant who gave a presentation on the Guinean situation with regard to EPAs. The aim of the meeting was for NGOs to strategise around the so-called Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) that the EU is negotiating with 77 countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group, and which the EU would like to launch in 2008.