STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE
PRESIDENT JONATHAN FOR EU-AFRICA SUMMIT IN BRUSSELS
President
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will travel to Brussels Tuesday at the head of
Nigeria’s delegation to the Fourth European Union-Africa Summit
scheduled to open in the Belgian capital on Wednesday, April 2, 2014.
The summit has "Investing in People, Prosperity and Peace" as its theme.
Participants
including President Goodluck Jonathan, the President of the European
Council, Mr. Herman Van Rompuy, the President of the European
Commission, Mr. Jose Manuel Barroso, other Heads of State and Government
of the European Union and Africa as well as leaders of the European
Union and African Union Institutions will, among other matters, discuss
ways of stimulating further growth and creating more jobs in Nigeria and
other African countries.
Education
and training, women and youth, legal and illegal migrant flows between
both continents, investments in peace and ways to enhance EU support for
African capacities to manage security on the continent are also on the
agenda of the summit.
The
Brussels Summit will also provide an opportunity for participants to
review EU-Africa relations based on the Joint Africa-EU Strategy which
was adopted in Lisbon in 2007 and explore options for greater
mutually-beneficial cooperation between Africa and Europe.
President
Jonathan whose entourage will include the Minister of Defence, Lt.-Gen
Aliyu Gusau (rtd.), the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu
Wali and the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Olusegun
Aganga will hold bilateral talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel of
Germany and some other participating heads of state and government
before leaving Brussels for Abuja on Wednesday night.
Reuben Abati
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
March 31, 2014
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