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The Lomé Convention has figured prominently in the international banana trade. Named for the capital of Togo, where it was signed in , Lomé at first linked nine members to forty-six of their former colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. The latter comprise the group, now numbering seventy-nine states, including many of the world’s least developed countries but not including Latin America’s mainland countries. The Latin American countries were not included in the group because they have stronger economic linkages to North America than with Europe. Since there have been four Lomé Conventions; the first three were five-year agreements, and the fourth, Lomé IV, lasted ten years before expiring in February . The future of the system was in doubt during the last five years of Lomé IV as negotiations for a fifth convention were held simultaneously with hearings on the United States’ complaint against the EU banana policy. Those hearings clearly affected the outcome of the Lomé deliberations, which yielded a successor, the Cotonou Agreement, signed in . D [eYebed_Wb_ic;dYekdj[hi j^[

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