{"id":8066,"date":"2018-02-28T07:20:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T07:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8066"},"modified":"2018-02-28T12:11:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T12:11:45","slug":"no-economic-partnership-agreements-between-eu-and-burundi-unless-sanctions-are-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/no-economic-partnership-agreements-between-eu-and-burundi-unless-sanctions-are-lifted\/","title":{"rendered":"No economic partnership agreements between EU and Burundi unless sanctions are lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a press conference held this Tuesday 27 February 2018, Burundi First Deputy President says the government still maintains its decision not to sign the European Union economic partnership agreements.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8065\" style=\"width: 438px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8065\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8065\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gaston-Sindimwo-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Gaston Sindimwo: \u201cBurundi will not sign partnership agreements with the UE unless its sanctions are removed\u201d\" width=\"428\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gaston-Sindimwo-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gaston-Sindimwo-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gaston-Sindimwo-1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaston Sindimwo: \u201cBurundi will not sign partnership agreements with the UE unless its sanctions are removed\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gaston Sindimwo says that after his return from the 19th summit of the EAC Heads of state that was held on 23rd February in Kampala, Uganda where he represented Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundi President.<\/p>\n<p>He says Burundi cannot sign economic partnership agreements with the EU. \u201cBurundi cannot sign partnership agreements with the European Union while the latter has applied penalties against the former,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Sindimwo says other countries of the East African Community can still sign these partnership agreements but states that they will not be successful unless Burundi signs. \u2018The EU wants to sign economic partnership agreements with the EAC of which Burundi is a member,\u201d he says adding that Burundi loses nothing by not signing.<\/p>\n<p>The First Deputy President appeals to the EU to remove sanctions against Burundi so that they can work together.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2016, the European Union has been negotiating economic partnership agreements with the East African Community, which are still a matter of discussion among EAC member states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a press conference held this Tuesday 27 February 2018, Burundi First Deputy President says the government still maintains its decision not to sign the European Union economic partnership agreements. Gaston Sindimwo says that after his return from the 19th summit of the EAC Heads of state that was held on 23rd February in Kampala, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,670],"tags":[113,216],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8067,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions\/8067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}