Negotiations for a proposed EPA have been on going for the past eleven years with no agreement in sight, prompting the EU earlier this year to suggest that negotiations should be suspended for 3 years.
At the Pacific ACP Leaders meeting in Port Moresby today, Forum chair and Prime Minister of PNG Peter O'Neill said leaders want the Pacific to pursue a comprehensive EPA (cEPA) with the EU.
A meeting on this with European Commission senior officials is planned to be held in the margins of COP 21 in Paris in December this year.
