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Africa: Continent, India Poised to Adopt Declaration to Enhance Relationship
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The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
26 March 2008
Posted to the web 26 March 2008
Addis Ababa
The African Union said on Sunday Africa and India were geared to adopt a declaration aimed at reinforcing their existing relationship come the Africa-India Forum Summit scheduled to be held next month in India.
The Joint Declaration of the Africa-India Partnership will contain the political commitments of the two sides as well as an Africa-India Framework for Cooperation, the Pan African body said in a statement.
The six-day summit, which will be held from 4 April, and to be preceded by a senior officials and ministerial meeting, is expected to attract high profile African leaders, according to a media statement from the Indian embassy in Addis Ababa.
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, along with State Minister for Trade and Industry Tadesse Haile, is among high profile African leaders expected to attend the forum.
Others expected to attend are the current chairman of the African Union and President of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete and former AU chairman of the African Union and President of Ghana John Kufuor, according to a news report published on the website.
The regional bodies to be represented are the Arab Maghreb Union, Economic Community for West African States the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African Community and the SADC.
The AU said the summit is intended to consider the modalities to strengthen the cooperation ties between the two partners in the economic and political areas.
Among areas to be considered are science and technology, research and development, social development and capacity building, tourism, infrastructure, energy and environment and media and communication.
According to the AU the summit also aims to adopt a harmonised and comprehensive framework to reinforce cooperation in a wide rage of fields as support to the already existing bilateral cooperation between African countries and India.
"The forum will also be an occasion for the sharing and exchange of good practices in harnessing resources from the Diaspora," it said.
Last week, India's government urged Indian firms to be more proactive in their approach to doing business in Africa if they are to challenge the surge from Chinese investments, the new report noted.
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