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Original Post Date: 2010-11-30 Time: 06:00:05 Posted By: News Poster
President Mugabe left Harare yesterday for Tripoli, Libya, to attend the third Africa-European Union Summit that begins in the Libyan capital today.
The President, who was accompanied by several senior Government officials, will join heads of state and government drawn from over 80 countries from Africa and Europe as well as the top brass of the African Union and EU, among them AU Commission chair Dr Jean Ping, European Council president Mr Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission president Mr José Manuel Barroso.
The summit – being held under the theme “Investment, Economic Growth and Job Creation’ – will seek to examine the uneasy relationship between two continents tied by a history of slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism.
The leaders will seek to find ways of ensuring that Africa and Europe work together for mutual economic benefit, a development analysts say calls for a major mind shift on the part of some EU states that still essentially consider Africa their backyard.
Priorities for Africa-EU co-operation for the future and reinforcing of partnerships between the two continents are part of the summit agenda.
The Heads of State and Government are expected to discuss strategies for sustained growth of the two continents, and as a means to establish partnerships between the participating countries and the consolidation of their relations.
The eradication of poverty, climate change, peace and security are the other issues up for discussion at the two-day summit.
It will be interesting to see how these issues pan out given the EU’s approach to the purely bilateral dispute between Zimbabwe and Britain, a dispute that flared over the latter’s refusal to honour its colonial obligations to fund land reforms in Zimbabwe, a development that saw the EU buy into Britain’s fight by imposing illegal economic sanctions, including travel bans to EU territory and an arms embargo, on Zimbabwe, in violation of the Cotonou Agreement that guides relations between African, Carribean and Pacific member states.
The AU has since condemned the illegal EU embargo, which the EU went on to extend by another 12 months in February this year.
The embargo has compromised relations between Zimbabwe and the EU over the past decade and has largely remained the elephant in the room at the two previous summits in Cairo, Egypt, in 2003 and Lisbon, Portugal, in 2007.
The Lisbon summit launched the Africa-EU Strategic Partnerships founded on a joint strategy and action plan that sought to foster strategic partnerships in eight priority areas: peace and security; democratic governance and human rights; trade, regional integration and infrastructure; Millennium Development Goals; energy; climate change; migration, mobility and employment; and science, information society and space.
The partnership made some headway on the MDGs, peace and security, regional integration and trade though the Commission maintains that more progress is needed to overcome the fragmentation of policies and financial instruments.
The summit is likely to end with a joint declaration welcoming progress to date, but also highlighting the countries and issues that are most off track. A joint action plan for 2011-2013 is expected to be adopted, detailing concrete actions to be pursued to achieve these.
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Published by the government of Zimbabwe
Original date published: 29 November 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201011300176.html?viewall=1