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Papua New Guinea
MEPs on Wednesday gave their green light for the Council to conclude an Interim Economic Partnership Agreement with Papua New Guinea and Fiji, two countries of the Pacific Region with significant exports to the EU.
Japan and Papua New Guinea agreed Monday to launch negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty, Japanese government officials said.
PNG can now export to EU markets fish caught anywhere in the world and not just restricted to archipelagic and territorial waters
The EU and Papua New Guinea are today formally signing the Interim Economic Partnership Agreement.
The Inter-Professional Tuna Organisation (INTERATUN) warns that the European tuna fishing industry is in trouble if the European Union Agriculture and Fisheries Council approves the EU-Pacific Economic Partnership Agreement on Monday, 13 July
Initialled by Papua New Guinea and Fiji on 23 November 2007
Fiji and Papua New Guinea are silent on reports they were pressured into signing an Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union.
A free trade agreement covering the Pacific region is unlikely to be worth the paper it is written on as far as Papua New Guinea is concerned.
In an recent article headlined “Economic Partnership Agreements: tackling the myths”, the European Union's trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, sought to justify the EU's position on agreements being negotiated with the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries.
Do the Pacific Islands' negotiators genuinely hope they can negotiate a beneficial Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union or are they simply going through the motions and doing what is required of them under the Cotonou Agreement 2000? In the secretive chess game of trade negotiations it is impossible to know.
