EU-Andean Community Ministerial Meeting – Joint Communique – Santo Domingo, 19 April 2007

The XIII Ministerial Meeting between the Andean Community and the European Union took place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on 19 April 2007.

Following the decision taken at the Vienna Summit of May 2006 and in the High Level Meeting of July 2006 held in Brussels, the Ministers underlined the important progress achieved by the Andean Community in key sectors of regional economic integration.
Convinced that Sustainable Human Development has as priority objective the eradication of poverty, they agreed that this objective should underpin the relation between the Andean Community and the European Union. Ministers recognized the diversity of models of economic and social organization to achieve this objective.

During this meeting, they also dealt with Trafficking of illicit drugs and the Rule of Law.

• Primary Source

Wikipedia: Andean Community http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andean_Community

EU: EEAS: Andean Community and the European Union https://eeas.europa.eu/diplomatic-network/andean-community_en

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