Final financial agreement on sugar to be signed with EU next week

European Union (EU) Ambassador to Guyana Robert Kopecky will meet Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh next Thursday to sign the financial agreement on sugar for 2013.

Kopecky told Stabroek News that June 20 was the date designated to sign the agreement, which is in its last year under the second Multi-annual Sugar Programme 2011-2013.

This comes as trouble looms between African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and the EU. Officials in the EU have begun discussions on whether the 2015 cut off date extending quota free imports from ACP countries may need extending. Thus far the