Liberia: Liberia-EU Sign Forest Governance and Trade Agreement

May 30, 2014 | Al-Varney Rogers, AllAfrica
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Monrovia — A joint agreement between Liberia and the European Union, which intends to put in place a system to verify the legality of Liberia's timber production and strengthen forest sector governance was on Thursday signed at the Chamber of Commerce.

The objective of the meeting was to jointly review the implementation of the Liberia-EU Volunteer Partnership Agreement, which entered into force on the 1st of December 2013. The process, expected to last for several years, will bring the Liberian forestry sector into a state of the art and sustainable status.