EU-Africa summit concludes

At the Summit Botswana was represented by H.H. the Vice President, who was accompanied by the Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation along with senior officials. In the Lisbon Declaration African and European leaders declared that they "are determined to give the new strategic partnership the necessary means and instruments that will enable it to fulfil the Joint Strategy and the Action Plan, and to do so we have created a comprehensive and effective follow-up mechanism that can deliver on these goals and show us the results on the occasion of the Third Summit that shall be held in 2010.

They also state that they are "resolved to build a new strategic political partnership for the future, overcoming the traditional donor-recipient relationship and building on common values and goals in our pursuit of peace and stability, democracy and rule of law, progress and development."