Founding of Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States

The Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States was created by the Georgetown Agreement, signed in the capital of Guyana, as a body to represent a group of developing countries in their relations with the European Economic Community. It grew out of the Lomé Convention, signed in the same year, which gave these former colonies trade preferences and development aid from Europe. The group is based in Brussels and its membership now includes almost eighty states, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. It was originally known as the ACP Group and was renamed in 2020. The older partnership with the European Union was later reshaped in the Cotonou Agreement and then in the Samoa Agreement, which replaced it.

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