Summary code: Development / Sectoral development policies / Environment and management of natural resources / Energy Development / African, Caribbean and Pacific states (ACP) / Sectoral cooperation Enlargement / Ongoing enlargement / Instruments / Sectoral cooperation Enlargement / The stabilisation and association process: the Western Balkans / Sectoral cooperation Energy / Nuclear energy / Nuclear safety External relations / Eastern Europe and Central Asia / Sectoral cooperation External relations / Mediterranean partner countries / Sectoral cooperation External relations / ...[+++] Middle East / General framework External relations / Latin America / Sectoral cooperation External relations / Asia / Sectoral partnerships External relations / Industrialised countries / Relations with industrialised countries / Sectoral cooperation

Effective coordination between it and other Council Working Parties dealing with drug issues, including external relations (e.g. Police cooperation WG, customs cooperation WG, Multidisciplinary Group on organised crime, Public health WG, etc.)

The Group should meet more often to better coordinate the Commission's position in international events but also as a forum for exchanging information on different departments' priorities and programmes, the aim being to improve the Commission's ability to give guidance both on internal questions and in external relations.

- specific international cooperation activities with some groups of countries, as a support to Community external relations and development aid policies.

- The declaration of the meeting of EU and Rio Group ministers for external relations, held in Santiago de Chile on 23 March 2001, stressing the importance of promoting and intensifying exchange and cooperation between the civil societies of both regions.

external relations and humanitarian aid to give assistance to and promote economic cooperation with Asian, Latin American, African, Caribbean and Pacific or Mediterranean countries;