Traduction de «African Economic Community » (Anglais → Français) :

[I] AMU (Arab Maghreb Union); CEN-SAD (Communauté des Etats Sahélo-Sahariens); COMESA (Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa); EAC (East African Community); ECCAS (Economic Community of Central African States); ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States); IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority for Development); SADC (Southern African Development Community)

66. Insists that the RECs should be the pillars of the African integration process and the establishment of a pan-African market, and should not only be dealing directly with Europe; further insists that EPAs should not undermine Africa's own regional integration agenda, but that they should also be instruments for South-South integration and trade; calls therefore on the EU to respect Africa's own integration process, as determined by the Treaty establishing the African Economic Community of June 1991 (the Abuja Treaty), which provides for the African Economic Community to be set up through a gradual process, achieved by coordination, ...[+++] harmonisation and progressive integration of the activities of existing and future RECs in Africa;

66. Insists that the RECs should be the pillars of the African integration process and the establishment of a pan-African market, and should not only be dealing directly with Europe; further insists that EPAs should not undermine Africa's own regional integration agenda, but that they should also be instruments for South-South integration and trade; calls therefore on the EU to respect Africa's own integration process, as determined by the Treaty establishing the African Economic Community of June 1991 (the Abuja Treaty), which provides for the African Economic Community to be set up through a gradual process, achieved by coordination, ...[+++] harmonisation and progressive integration of the activities of existing and future RECs in Africa;

66. Insists that the RECs should be the pillars of the African integration process and the establishment of a pan-African market, and should not only be dealing directly with Europe; and that EPAs should not undermine Africa's own regional integration agenda ,but that they should also be instruments for South-South integration and trade; calls therefore on the EU to respect Africa’s own integration process, as determined by the Treaty establishing the African Economic Community of June 1991 (the Abuja Treaty), which provides for the African Economic Community to be set up through a gradual process, achieved by coordination, harmonisati ...[+++]on and progressive integration of the activities of existing and future RECs in Africa;

6. Stresses, in this spirit, that in 1991, after signing the fourth Lomé Convention, almost all of the African countries signed and subsequently ratified the Abuja Treaty, which provides for the setting up of an African economic community within 30 years; believes therefore that the cooperation activities to be enshrined in the new EU-ACP convention should take the form of a contribution to the building of this community and the direction it will take, and in no wise oppose the attainment of that goal;

Furthermore, although the contractual status of the Lomé partner Pacific and Caribbean countries has not changed, all the African states are signatories of the 3 June 1991 Abuja Treaty setting up the African Economic Community, which they have been applying since 1994.