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10.
URGES Member States to identify key issues in the post-Bali work programme
that facilitate the achievement of Africa’s strategic structural transformation and
regional integration agenda;
On African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)
11.
NOTES WITH APPRECIATION the announcement made by President Obama
on the occasion of the Africa-US Summit held in August 2014 expressing
commitment towards the reauthorization of AGOA;
12.
CALLS UPON the US Congress to preserve AGOA as the cornerstone of AfricaUS trade and investment partnership by ensuring the timely reauthorization of
AGOA co-terminus with the Third Country Fabric Provision;
13.
FURTHER CALLS UPON AGOA-eligible countries to enhance the advocacy to
complement the efforts of the African Group of Ambassadors in Washington, USA
towards the reauthorization of AGOA.