EU - Africa summit
Seven years after the first meeting of heads of state and government from the European Union and Africa, in Cairo, the second EU-Africa Summit was held in Lisbon on 8 and 9 December 2007, where representatives from the 80 countries that comprise this partnership, as well as heads of the regional institutions from both continents were present. The Summit sought to take into account the deep changes that affect Africa, Europe and the world during this period, by launching the basis for a long-term strategic partnership, and supplying the necessary tools for a joint work on the big global issues. Besides the approval of the two documents that shape the new EU-Africa partnership - the Joint Strategy and the Action Plan - during the Summit there was an open discussion of the five central themes of this mutual relationship: peace and security; democracy and human rights; trade, infrastructures and development; migrations and energy and climate change.
- Welcome message by the President of the European Council (Portuguese version, pdf format)
- Photo Gallery
- Who's who EUR (pdf format)
- Who's who AFR (pdf format)
- Who's who INST (pdf format)
- List of Participants (pdf format, portuguese version)
- News: “All the objectives proposed for this summit were fulfilled”, declares Luís Amado
- News «Lisbon Declaration» of the EU Africa Summit»
- News «The Africa-Eu Strategic Partnership: Joint Africa-Eu Strategy and Action Plan available now
- News «This EU-Africa Summit will go down History» says José Sócrates
- News «Speech by the Prime Minister of Portugal, José Sócrates, at the Opening Session of the EU-Africa Summit»
- News «José Sócrates begins work sessions at EU-Africa Summit»
- News «John Kufuor thanks Portugal to have brought about the EU-Africa Summit»
- News «Sócrates highlights the role of Portugal in the EU-Africa Summit»
- News «José Sócrates convenes with Sudanese head to State to analyse the refugee situation in Darfur»
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Statement by the Government of Sudan and the United Nations on the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) (pdf format, original version)
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Discours de M. le Président de la République de la France (pdf format, original version)
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Discours de son Excellence Monsieur Amadou Toumani Toure - Président de la République du Mali (pdf format, original version)
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Discours prononcé par M. le Président de la République du Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré (pdf format, original version)
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Speech of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki (pdf format, original version)
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Rede der Bundeskanzlerin der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Dr. Angela Merkel (pdf format, original version)
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Discurso de Sua Excelência o Primeiro-ministro da República de Cabo Verde, Dr. José Maria Pereira Neves (pdf format, original version)
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Press Conference of the EU-Africa Summit (mp3 format)
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Press Conference of the EU-Africa Summit (wmv format)
Background documentation:
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Press communiqué of the 9th meeting of the EU-Africa Troika, Accra, Ghana, 2007-10-31 (pdf format)
Know more:
http://www.summits.aip.pt/Africa/index.asp
Source: Portuguese EU Presidency