00711nam a2200121Ia 4500 20260716043342.0 GREENIDGE, Carl Partnership is important and we should stick with it. 1997 Explains that the ACP group contains countries which combine three distinct characteristics: (1) it has a large proportion of the world's least developed countries; (2) most of them are trade dependent; and, (3) the majority rely on the European Union market. These characteristics provide a strong argument for continuing special treatment, and ACPs will argue for continuing trade preferences at the end of the current Lome Convention. 3/7/00 M2LMGR A 45462 45462