The action will focus on three priorities: governance, regionalism and sustainable management of natural resources.

They all have everything to gain allying themselves with the ‘open regionalism’ which EU-AL relations have sought to foster for decades, naturally while allowing for the needs of the moment.

This is an objective to be pursued according to a model compatible from the point of view of the WTO and of regionalism that should be implemented in two stages. During the first stage, the negotiations on the EU-MERCOSUR association agreement should be concluded without further delay, at the Vienna Summit; negotiations should be opened on individual association agreements with the Andean and Central American communities, similar, though with the appropriate adjustments, to those already concluded with Mexico and Chile and about to be concluded with MERCOSUR; the new GSP ‘plus’ should be applied to the Andean and Central American count ...[+++]ries until such time as the relevant agreements had entered into force; and the existing EU-Mexico and EU-Chile agreements should be consolidated.

The strengthened partnership should therefore focus on governance, regionalism and sustainable management of natural resources.

This marks an important and ambitious step forward in cooperation in the Pacific region which focuses, in particular, on economic growth, sustainable development, good governance and security for Pacific countries through regionalism and offers an opportunity to step up EU-Pacific relations.

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