On 30 January 1975, Claude Cheysson, Member of the European Commission, Garret FitzGerald, Irish Foreign Minister and President of the EEC Council of Ministers, and Babakar Ba, Senegalese Finance Minister and President of the ACP (African, Carribean and Pacific countries) Council of Ministers, discuss the problem EEC-ACP trade in sugar.

In einer am 12. Februar 1975 gehaltenen Rede zeigt sich Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, Staatsminister im Auswärtigen Amt, zufrieden über den Erfolg der Verhandlungen über die Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Europäischen Gemeinschaft und den AKP-Staaten.

Am 27. Februar 1975 bringt die togolesische Presse die Verhandlungen zur Erarbeitung eines Abkommens zwischen der Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (EWG) und 46 Ländern aus Afrika, den karibischen und pazifischen Inseln (AKP) auf ihre Titelseite. Lomé, die Hauptstadt Togos wird so für einige Tage «die Hauptstadt der Zusammenarbeit zwischen 508 Millionen Menschen». Das Lomé-Abkommen sieht unter anderem ein System der Zusammenarbeit vor, das Entwicklungshilfe, industrielle und technische Handelskooperation und finanzielle Unterstützung miteinander verbindet. So gewährleistet es, dass Exporteinnahmen trotz des Risikos schlechter Ernten und sinkender Preise stabil bleiben.

On 28 February 1975, 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States and the nine Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC) sign a cooperation convention in Lomé (Togo) .

On 28 February 1975, General Étienne Eyadema, Togolese President and Head of Government, welcomes Claude Cheysson, European Commissioner with special responsibility for development, and François-Xavier Ortoli, President of the European Commission, upon their arrival in Lomé for the ceremony to mark the signature of the first EEC-ACP convention.

On 28 February 1975, François-Xavier Ortoli, President of the Commission of the European Communities, delivers a speech during the ceremony to mark the signature, in Lomé, of the first Convention of cooperation between the Member States of the EEC and the ACP countries.

Am 28. Februar 1975 hält Babacar Ba, Präsident der 46 AKP-Staaten (AKP = Gruppe der afrikanischen, karibischen und pazifischen Staaten) und Wirtschaftsminister von Senegal, eine Rede zur Unterzeichnung des wirtschaftlichen Kooperationsabkommens zwischen den neun EWG-Staaten und den AKP-Ländern.

On 1 March 1975, French daily newspaper Le Monde describes the main provisions of the first Lomé Convention, signed on 28 February 1975 in the Togolese capital by 44 African, Carribean and Pacific countries and the nine Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC).

In May 1977, the monthly publication 30 jours d'Europe gives a provisionally positive account of the application of the first Lomé Convention on EEC-ACP cooperation.

Table tracing the development of the cooperation policy followed by the European Economic Community (EEC) between the entry into force of the Treaties of Rome and June 1977.

In the mid-1970s, the European Economic Community (EEC) sends aid to the starving peoples of the African Sahel.

In diesem Interview erläutert Jean-Jacques Kasel, Legationsattaché des luxemburgischen Außenministeriums von 1973 bis 1976, die Verhandlungsthemen, die zur Unterzeichnung des ersten Lomé-Abkommens zwischen 44 Staaten aus Afrika, den karibischen und pazifischen Inseln (AKP) und den neun Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (EWG) geführt haben.

On 31 October 1979, Togolese hostesses wearing ceremonial African dress in the colours of the EEC–PAC partnership witness the official signing of the second Lomé Convention.

On 31 October 1979, Pierre Bernard-Reymond, French Secretary of State to the Minister for Foreign Affairs (European Affairs), agrees to be interviewed by the French Catholic daily newspaper Le Figaro on the subject of the second Lomé Convention, of 31 October 1979, which defines, for a five-year period, trade relations between the nine Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC) and 57 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States.

On 31 October 1979, Simone Veil, President of the European Parliament, welcomes the signing of the second Lomé Convention, which, for the next five years, regulates trade relations between the nine Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC) and 57 African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries.

On 31 October 1979, the second Convention of economic cooperation between the nine Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC) and 57 African, Carribean and Pacific (ACP) countries is signed in Lomé (Togo).

In January 1980, monthly publication 30 jours d'Europe comments on the main provisions of the second Lomé Convention, signed on 31 October 1979, which was to govern trade relations between the nine Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC) and 57 African, Carribean and Pacific (ACP) States.

On 31 October 1979, in Lomé, the Togolese people welcome the signing of the second Convention linking the Nine to 58 ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) States.