Karen Hackshaw
Media, Communications and Public Relations Officer at ACP Secretariat / Secrétariat ACP - Sydney, NSW, AU
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Doreen Walsweer
Member of Task Force ACP-EU Post Cotonou Negotiations for a New Agreement
Escipion Joaquin
Assistant Secretary General, Sustainable Economic Transformation and Trade
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The African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) is an organisation created by the Georgetown Agreement in 1975. It is composed of 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific states, with all, save Cuba, signatories to the Cotonou Agreement, or the the "ACP-EC Partnership Agreement", which binds them to the European Union. There are 48 countries from Sub-Saharan Africa, 16 from the Caribbean and 15 from the Pacific. The ACP Group´s main objectives are : sustainable development of its Member-States and their gradual integration into the global economy, which entails making poverty reduction a matter of priority and establishing a new, fairer, and more equitable world order ; coordination of the activities of the ACP Group in the framework of the implementation of ACP-EC Partnership Agreements; consolidation of unity and solidarity among ACP States, as well as understanding among their peoples ; establishment and consolidation of peace and stability in a free and democratic society. The Secretariat is responsible for the administrative management of the ACP Group. It assists the Group's decision-making and advisory organs in carrying out their work. The ACP Secretariat's headquarters is located in Brussels (Belgium) and is headed by an Executive Secretary-General. The Secretariat is responsible for: carrying out the tasks assigned it by the Summit of ACP Heads of State and Government, Council of Ministers, Committee of Ambassadors and the ACP Parliamentary Assembly; contributing to the implementation of the decisions of these organs; monitoring the implementation of the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement; assisting the ACP organs and joint institutions created in the framework of the ACP-EU Partnership Agreements. acting on proposals from the Committee of Ambassadors, the Council of Ministers determines the structure of the ACP Secretariat and lays down its Staff Regulations. The Secretary-General is responsible for recruiting staff.