G8 partnership with Africa

Dave emailed us this:

Right on time for the G8 Summit, the US Council for Foreign Relations (CFR) released a report on Africa — Freedom, Prosperity, Security - The G8 Partnership with Africa: Sea Island 2004 and Beyond . The goal of the report is to assure that the commitments made by the G8 towards Africa in 2002 (Kananaskis, Canada) and 2003 (Evian, France) under the African Action Plan (AAP) are not downgraded at this June’s summit at Sea Island, Georgia:
The report shows that Africa serves important American interests.
* Terrorist cells have penetrated the continent, attacking American embassies, and causing increased concern to American commanders in NATO and EUCOM;
* Africa is rapidly becoming a major source of oil for the United States, accounting for 20 percent of new oil coming on the world market;
* Africa has forty of the 147 members of the World Trade Organization and is playing an important role in the […]

Read the rest of this great post here.

June 8, 2004 | Filed Under Uncategorized

 

Comments

Leave a Reply