Bolivian Foreign Minister visits the Commission and signs future cooperation

Bolivia´s Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca Céspedes visited the European Commission in Brussels on the 10 December 2008. He met Commissioner for External Relations and Neighourhood Policy, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, to discuss a range of significant bilateral issues as well as EU-Andean Community relations.

During the visit, Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner and Foreign Minister Choquehuanca signed the Memorandum of Understanding on the Community cooperation with Bolivia for the period 2007 to 2013, which has an allocation of €234 million. This cooperation would focus on the creation of sustainable economic opportunities for decent work; the fight against illicit drug production and trafficking by means of comprehensive development to tackle poverty and enhance social cohesion; and the sustainable management of natural resources, in particular through support for the integrated management of national and international river basins.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Relations between Peru and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/relations-between-bolivia-and-the-european-union/

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

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