Its headquarters is located in Lomé.

However, despite Lomé, the country plunged into war.

In Lomé, we thought that the main problem was the reintegration of the mutineers into the army.

A subregional workshop on promoting tourism for World Heritage sites will be convened in Lomé, Togo.

There was nothing really wrong with the Lomé Peace Agreement, per se.

During the day of 26 April 2005, members of the military were manhandled and forced to hand over their weapons in some districts of Lomé .

We have also provided long standing support to the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa, at Lomé, and we shall continue that effort.

1. Notes that the year 2006 commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa in Lomé

Clashes again broke out from 27 to 29 April 2005, both in Lomé and in the interior of the country, resulting in many deaths and injuries.

Under the Cotonou Agreement, formerly known as the Lome Convention, African countries have been given an opportunity by Europe to export goods, duty free, to the European Union market.

I would therefore take this opportunity to announce that while in principle we remain committed to the Lomé Peace agreement, we reserve the right not to be bound by all its provisions.

The Council recalls in this regard the African Union position on unconstitutional changes of governments, as stated in the 1999 Algiers Declaration and the 2000 Lomé Declaration.

We have also made special efforts to consolidate the peace by promoting national cohesion and by addressing the special needs of war victims, including through the payment of reparations as provided for by the Lomé Peace Agreement.

The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa, headquartered in Lomé, Togo, operates on the basis of voluntary contributions from Member States and some resources from the Secretariat.

The President of Sierra Leone, in an address delivered on 22 June 2000 at a national conference organized by the Sierra Leone Labour Congress, commented on the status of the Lomé Peace Agreement.

But we need international support for these victims through, for instance, the Special Fund for War Victims envisaged under the 1999 Lomé Peace Agreement and the National Commission for War Affected Children.

One way preferences include General System of Preferences (GSP) schemes, the Everything but arms (EBA) initiative of EU and those agreed to under successive Lomé accords and Cotonou agreements.

For instance we attach special importance to the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of ex combatants an activity which we had already launched long before the Lomé Reconstruction Programme.

2 Declaration on the Framework for an OAU Response to Unconstitutional Changes of Government, adopted by the Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity, Lomé, July 2000 (AHG Decl.5(XXXVI)).

Abidjan Ouagadougou Niamey, Lomé Ouagadougou Niamey, Tema Ouagadougou Bamako, Cotonou Niamey, Tema Ouagadougou Niamey, Bamako Dakar Banjul Bissau, Abidjan Bamako and Abidjan Accra Lomé Cotonou Lagos corridors have been selected as part of the Regional Facilitation Programme.

In the name of Côte d'Ivoire, I agreed not only to negotiate with those who had taken up arms against the motherland, but also to place these negotiations, from the outset, under the aegis of the international community first under the auspices of the Economic Community of West African States in Accra, and then in Lomé.

Recalling also the principles enshrined in the Constitutive Act of the African Union adopted at the meeting of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union, held in Lomé from 10 to 12 July 2000,United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2158, No. 37733.

In December 2004, the Government of Togo made a special financial contribution aimed at enabling the Centre to maintain its operation in Lomé until the time when substantial financial support would be firmly committed to ensuring a multi year sustainable operation.

Welcoming decision CM Dec.531 (LXXII) on the situation of refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa adopted by the Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity at its seventy second ordinary session, held at Lomé from 6 to 8 July 2000,See A 55 286, annex I.