"We are starting to table draft texts and we are facing key points of divergence like the ACP demand for additional development finance commitments to be spelt out in the text of the EPA."
"Now is the time to give the process political impetus, to make sure we address these points, and move on, giving full and proper profile to the substantial commitments we are making the world is moving on and preferences are eroding - eroding permanently. It does the ACP no favours to cling to the past, as some NGOs want".