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2nd European Union–African Union Summit

Second summit between heads of state and government from EU and Africa

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country	Portugal
date	8–9 December 2007
cities	Lisbon
follows	[1st European Union - African Union Summit](1st-european-union-african-union-summit)
precedes	[3rd European Union - African Union Summit](3rd-european-union-african-union-summit)
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The 2nd European Union - African Union Summit, which was held on 8 December – 9 December 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal, was the second summit between heads of state and government from EU and Africa (the first having been held in Cairo in 2000). It was hosted by Portugal, the holder of the EU's rotating presidency. During the summit, the "Joint EU-Africa Strategy", the "Action Plan" and the "Lisbon Declaration" were adopted.

There was controversy about the attendance of Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe, as he is subject to an EU travel ban. The European Commission president, José Manuel Barroso, defended inviting Mugabe to attend, saying that "If international leaders decided not to go to those conferences involving countries which do not have reasonable human rights records, I'm afraid we would not be attending many conferences at all." Because of Mugabe's attendance, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the UK stayed away, and United Kingdom was represented by Baroness Amos. Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek of the Czech Republic also stayed away for the same reason.

Issues and results of the summit

The summit agreed on eight strategic partnerships and an action plan and agreed to meet again in 2010.

The eight areas for strategic partnerships are:

Peace and security
Democratic governance and human rights
Trade, regional integration and infrastructure
Millennium Development Goals
Energy
Climate change
Migration, mobility and employment
Science, information society and space.

The existing preferential trade agreements between the EU and the ACP countries would not be compatible with WTO rules, except for a waiver which terminated at the end of 2007, and it had been hoped to replace these arrangements by WTO-compatible Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), but these were rejected by the African delegations. |access-date=2007-12-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212170645/http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7139035 |archive-date=2007-12-12 |url-status=live

Differences on human rights centered on Zimbabwe and its president, Robert Mugabe, as well as the Darfur conflict.

Countries at the summit

European Union

Main article: European Union

Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom

African Union

Main article: African Union

Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo
Côte d'Ivoire
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
SADR
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Observers

Parliaments

European Parliament
Pan-African Parliament

EU candidate countries

Turkey
Croatia
Macedonia

Other countries

Norway
Canada
Japan
Russia
China
India
Brazil
Switzerland
Iceland
Liechtenstein
Morocco

International organizations

UNHCR
African Development Bank
UNAIDS
FAO
Arab League

References

[http://www.eu2007.pt/NR/rdonlyres/D449546C-BF42-4CB3-B566-407591845C43/0/071206jsapenlogos_formatado.pdf The Africa-EU Strategic Partnership: A Joint Africa-EU Strategy]
[http://www.eu2007.pt/NR/rdonlyres/BAC34848-05CC-45E9-8F1D-8E2663079609/0/20071208LISBONDeclaration_EN.pdf Lisbon Declaration - EU Africa Summit]
[http://europafrica.org/2007/12/09/joint-strategy-adopted-at-summit/ Joint EU-Africa Strategy adopted at Summit], ''EU-Africa consultation'', 9 December 2007
[http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article3231228.ece Barroso defends decision to invite Mugabe to conference] {{Webarchive. link. (2007-12-08 , ''The Independent'', 7 December 2007)
"The Importance of Politics in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in Fragile States".
(2007-12-09). "Europe, Africa summit brings little progress on key issues". International Herald Tribune.

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