Agreement of Agadir

The agreement of Agadir is a prelude to future the euro-Mediterranean Zone of free trade.

Signed the February 25th 2004, it creates an Arab zone of free trade, which currently gathers the Egypt, the Jordan, the Morocco and the Tunisia. The Commission eurpéenne did not cease supporting this initiative on the political plan since the signature of the declaration of Agadir in May 2001, and also supports it thanks to a programme of 4 million euros.

Lebanon had started consultations for its adhesion with the agreement of Agadir to which are, in theory, eligible, all Arab countries bordering of the Mediterranean and related to the EU by an agreement of free trade (officially, agreement of association). But Algeria opposed a Net refusal to the requests of the EU and her Maghrebian neighbors, preferring, officially, an economic integration chapeautée by the UMA (Union of the Arab Maghreb, Algérie, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia).

The countries of the agreement of Agadir finally obtained a secretariat was creates and the seat fixed at Amman. It is a Tunisian, Ferid Tounsi, which was named by consensus at this station. Ferid Tounsi was responsible, during more than one decade, promotion of the investments in Tunisia attached to the EU then of North America and, until the beginning 2007, Managing director of the Center of promotion of the trade of its country.

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* p_action.getfile=gf&doc=IP/04/256|0|RAPID&lg=FR&type=PDF signature of the agreement]

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