32nd session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA)

The 32nd session of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and European Union (EU) member states was held on 19-21 December 2016.

A declaration was approved, outlining a renewed partnership between the two regions after 2020 - following the expiration of the Cotonou Agreement - and calling for a strong parliamentary dimension, of which the JPA forms the core.

The previous session had taken place in June 2016.

• Primary Source

ESO: ACP-EU relations after 2020: The end of an era [EPRS: Briefing, December 2016] http://www.europeansources.info/record/acp-eu-relations-after-2020-the-end-of-an-era/

European Parliament: Press Release, 19.12.16: ACP-EU :'Zero immigration has never existed and never will' http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/20161215IPR56306/

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