Working Breakfast on the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Africa
10/09/2009
The G8 broadened this morning to take in the African countries of Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa, the IEA, World Bank, IMF, ILO, OECD, WTO and United Nations and the African Union Commission’s representatives.
The topics discussed at table were the impact of the global economic crisis, which is hitting the world’s poorest people and threatening to put paid to the progress made in the spheres of health and stamping out hunger and poverty.
The G8 countries and the African countries passed a
joint G8-Africa statement
on water at the end of the meeting, asserting their determination to build a stronger partnership, based on the principle of shared responsibility, between the African countries and the G8 to broaden access to water and public health.
The statement marks a major milestone, as this is the first time a G8 statement has been fully agreed with the group’s African partners.
