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President Kufuor to represent continent at first
Africa-India Summit
Accra, April 3, Ghanadot/GNA – President
John Agyekum Kufuor will leave Accra Thursday night for
London en route to New Delhi, India, to attend the first
Africa-India Summit scheduled for April 4 to 9, 2008.
The President is part of a 14-member delegation of Heads of
State selected by the African Union to represent the
continent at this historic summit.
A statement signed by Mr. Andrew Awuni, Press Secretary to
the President and Presidential Spokesman, said the major
economic blocks of the world had in recent times doubled
their efforts to court Africa and to strengthen their
relations with the continent.
It said America came through with the Millennium Challenge
Account (MCA) in 2006, China initiated the China-Africa
Forum also in 2006, Europe revived the AU-EU Summit last
year and now India was taking her turn.
The statement said the Summit would seek to reinvigorate
Africa-India relations and provide broad directions for
greater partnership in the 21st century.
An Action Plan to provide a comprehensive framework for
mutually beneficial cooperation between India and Africa
would also be announced, the statement said.
This will be in the areas of economy, politics, science,
technology, research and development as well as social
development and capacity-building. Others will be tourism,
infrastructure, energy and environments, water and
sanitation and media and communication.
President Kufuor is expected back home on Saturday, April
12, 2008.
GNA
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