Africa says "no" to Europe on new trade deals Sun Dec 9, 2007 8:43am EST
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By Pascal Fletcher and Elisabete Tavares
LISBON (Reuters) - Most African leaders on Sunday rejected new trade deals demanded by the European Union, dealing a blow to efforts to forge a new economic partnership at the first EU-Africa summit in seven years.
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade bluntly dismissed Brussels' pressure to impose new trade deals by December 31, when a waiver by the World Trade Organization on preferential trade arrangements for developing countries expires.
The EU wants to replace expiring trade accords with so-called Economic Partnership Agreements or temporary deals, which anti-poverty groups have criticized for failing to provide protection for Africa's poor farmers and its fragile industry.
"We are not talking any more about EPAs, we've rejected them ... we're going to meet to see what we can put in place of the EPAs," Wade angrily told reporters on the second and final day of the summit on the banks of Lisbon's Tagus River.
"I agree with this spirit of creating a new relationship (with Europe), but we have to define what that relationship is," Wade said, adding: "It's clear that Africa rejects the EPAs".
While around a dozen African countries have recently agreed interim trade deals with the EU, most African leaders argue they need more time to prepare their weaker economies and societies for the impact of the end of preferential trade arrangements.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Durao Barroso rejected the African charge Brussels had strong-armed countries over trade, saying in a statement it was "indispensable to safeguard trade flows" between Europe and Africa after December 31.
"Our objective has always been and remains to conclude Economic Partnership Agreements which aim at strengthening regional integration and bring genuine development to African countries," Barroso said. Continued...
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