Like this regional strategy, I call for the Euro-African Atlantic Space also to be created, which would enable the deepening of relations between the south-west coast of Europe, the outermost regions (OR) and the neighbouring countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States.

It creates a Cooperation Council to ensure the smooth operation of the Agreement. And it provides for regular contact between the parties; for example, between their Parliaments and between the EU's Economic and Social Committee and its South-African counterpart, the National Economic Development and Labour Council.

Angola has everything it takes to be a great, rich, developed country and a factor for stability and progress in south-western Africa, but it has been squandering its resources and energies in a conflict which seems to go on forever.

having regard to the various free trade agreements, involving varying degrees of integration, by the Arab League, the Association of Southeast Asian countries (ASEAN), the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the South American Common Market (MERCOSUR), the South African Development Community (SADC) (and the South African Customs Union - SACU - established by members of the SADC), the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), PICTA (the Pacific Islands Countries Trade Agreement) and the Japan-Singapore Economic Agreement for a New ...[+++]Age Partnership,

It creates a Cooperation Council to ensure the smooth operation of the Agreement. And it provides for regular contact between the parties; for example, between their Parliaments and between the EU's Economic and Social Committee and its South-African counterpart, the National Economic Development and Labour Council.

SWAPO, the South West Africa Peoples Organization, under the direction of Sam Nujoma, won the November 1989 election and independence was declared the following year.