Press release

The work of the 107th Session of the ACP Council of Ministers ended this afternoon in Lomé on the eve of the opening of the 43rd Session of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers with the adoption of the Post-Cotonou Negotiations Mandate .

Togo, which has been designated to chair the Central Negotiating Group, has been formally handed over the Post-Cotonou negotiating mandate. This is the Prof. Robert DUSSEY, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and African Integration, who received on behalf of the Head of State HE Mr. Faure ESSOZIMNA GNASSINGBÉ, President of the Togolese Republic, President-in-Office of ECOWAS, from the hands of Mrs. Kamina JOHNSON SMITH, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jamaica, President of the ACP Council of Ministers, said mandate.

It should be recalled that the Central Negotiating Group (NPG) is composed as follows:

1.TOGO (presidency), represented by Professor Robert DUSSEY
2. GUYANA, represented by Honorable Carl GREENIDGE
3. JAMAICA, represented by Honorable Senator Kamina JOHNSON SMITH
4. PAPUA NEW GUINEA, represented by Honorable Pato RIMBINK
5. SAMOA, represented by Honorable Fiame NOAMI MATAAFA
6. CAMEROON, represented by Honorable Alamine OUSMANE
7. CHAD, represented by Honorable Dr. Issa DOUBRAGNE
8. ETHIOPIA, represented by Honorable Dr. Abraham TEKETSE
9. KENYA, represented by Dr. Julius MUIA
10. NAMIBIA, represented by Honorable Tweya TJEKERO
11. LESOTHO, represented by Honorable Majoro MOEKETSI
12. NIGERIA, represented by Mr Ogudanya ADEKUNLE.

In the process, the central bargaining group chaired by the negotiator Chief Prof. Robert DUSSEY, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and of African Integration of Togo, held a first consultation meeting in Lomé on the conduct of negotiations with the European Union, main partner of the ACP Group. Negotiations for Post-Cotonou begin
the month of August 2018.