8th ACP Heads of State

This is because the Cotonou Agreement signed in 2000 between ACP countries and European Union expires in 2020 and the discussion will be focused to provide directions for a way forward after this agreement expires.

Foreign Affairs Minister Rimbink Pato was in Senegal last month for the 103^rd ACP Council of Ministers Meeting and said they also looked at this while there.

He will be the only president attending this meeting where 50 countries have already registered to participate.

His advance party including that of 5 other African nations are already in Port Moresby doing preparatory work for the arrival of their delegations.

4 other vice presidents, 13 Prime Ministers, 1 deputy prime minister, 1 Speaker of Parliament, 14 ministers and 16 ambassadors from the 50 registered ACP countries will also lead their delegation to Port Moresby for the meeting next week.