3rd Africa-EU Summit

The 3rd Africa-EU Summit took place on 29-30 November in Tripoli, Libya. The Heads of State and Governments of Africa and the EU adopted the "Tripoli declaration", and an Action Plan for 2011-2013, (re)committing to seize together new opportunities for broader and mutually beneficial initiatives. The Tripoli Declaration reflected the determinacy to progress in the identified priority areas of cooperation and towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals in Africa. The Action Plan maintained the 8 priority areas of cooperation identified in the First Action Plan (2008-2010):

1. Peace and security;
2. Democratic governance and human rights;
3. Regional economic integration, trade and infrastructure;
4. Millennium Development Goals;
5. Climate change;
6. Energy;
7. Migration, mobility and employment;
8. Science, information society and space.

The 3rd Africa-EU Summit was preceded by a number of important preparatory and side events.

• EU-Africa Business Forum (EABF) - 26-27-28 November 2010
• Parliamentary pre-summit - 27 November 2010
• Africa-EU Youth Event, 26-27-28 November 2010
• Urban Exhibition of Contemporary African Artistic Practices: Visionary Africa - November 2010 in Tripoli, Libya, in January 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in February-March 2011 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
• Conference on higher education, 23-24 November 2010 - (Cape Town, South Africa).
• High Level Conference on Better Training for Safer Food (BTSF) - 18-19 November 2010 (Brussels, Belgium).
• Euro-Africa Week on ICT Research & e-Infrastructures - 7-10 December (Helsinki, Finland).
• Intercontinental civil society forum
• Trade Unions Summit