Ms Mary Barrett:

The 2000 Cotonou agreement is much bigger than trade. It has other issues in it and Cuba would have made the decision not to sign up to it. That being said, the EU is currently negotiating a bilateral EU-Cuba political dialogue and co-operation agreement and hopes to finish it next year. That agreement will increase political dialogue and economic relations. Deputy O'Sullivan also mentioned an EU trade review and EPAs not being included in it. I will ask Ms Benson to say something about it because she deals with the trade review.