The basic development problem of the ACP Group of Countries…is inadequate, uncompetitive and undiversified productive capacity. Yet the present Agreement that the European Community (EC) has designed for them, that purports to be an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), is almost entirely about market access and other trade-related modalities…

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Statement to the European Parliament on the EPA Havelock Brewster

It is to be regretted that this process of conception of the Agreement, one that purports to represent an Economic Partnership between a group of some of the largest and most wealthy States in the world and a group of poor micro-States, had not been more transparent, more democratic and more pro-development. A good opportunity to craft a best- practice model of international development cooperation has been missed…

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Statement to the European Parliament on the EPA

[1] Text of a paper presented at the Commonwealth Secretariat High Level Technical Meeting: EPAs: The Way Forward for the ACP. Cape Town, South Africa, 7-8 April, 2008