A special session of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) Council of Ministers was convened at Tuanaimato on Tuesday.

Senior Samoan politicians including the Prime Minister, Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa as well as her Deputy Prime Minister, Tuala Tevaga Iosefo Ponifasio joined parliamentary colleagues from the OACPS Council of Ministers for the special session. 

The official opening of the session as well as photo opportunities at the conference venue at Gymn 2 Tuanaimato was opened to the media before the plenary session for the OACPS Council of Ministers got underway.

A welcome reception for the delegates was then hosted by Prime Minister Fiame at the Manumailagi Gardens in Siusega around 6 pm on Tuesday afternoon. 

On Wednesday the official opening of the 46th session of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers will convene at 9 am before the plenary session session of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers gets underway.

The historic signing ceremony of the Samoa Agreement will happen after 1 pm with Prime Minister Fiame as well as the Co-Chairs for the Joint EU-OACPS Council of Ministers and Joint EU Council of Ministers among those to give their statements. 

The signing ceremony will conclude with a press conference and a photo session before the Samoa government hosts a reception at the Robert Lous Stevenson Museum in the evening to conclude the historic event. 

According to the ACP website, the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) is an organisation created by the Georgetown Agreement in 1975. It is composed of African, Caribbean and Pacific States signatories to the Georgetown Agreement or the Partnership Agreement between the ACP and the European Union, officially called the "ACP-EC Partnership Agreement" or the "Cotonou Agreement". 

The Group consists of 79 Member-States, all of them, save Cuba, were signatories to the Cotonou Agreement which bound them to the European Union: 48 countries from Sub-Saharan Africa, 16 from the Caribbean and 15 from the Pacific. The Samoa Agreement which will be signed on Wednesday is considered a post-Cotonou Agreement.