The world food and financial crisis, and debate on how best to ensure that EU-ACP economic partnership agreements foster development, took centre stage at the 17th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA), in Prague (Czech Republic) from 4 to 9 April 2009. Delegates debated how best to establish peace and stability in Somalia, a Horn of Africa country afflicted by piracy at sea and fierce fighting between African Union peacekeepers and Islamic rebels on land.
Food and financial crisis
$50 billion for poor countries is certainly not enough to compensate them for $750 billion of lost growth in 2009 alone”, said Co-President Glenys Kinnock, commenting on the G20′s response in London on 2 April, to the impact of the crisis on the world’s poor.
The role of the Cotonou Partnership Agreement in addressing the food and financial crisis in ACP countries will be debated on the afternoon of Monday 6 April.
More information available from the European Parliament’s Press Release
