DECISION ON THE VENUE OF THE TWENTY FIFTH
FRANCE-AFRICA SUMMIT - DOC. EX.CL/205 (VII) Add.1
The Executive Council:
TAKES NOTE of the offer by the Arab Republic of Egypt to host the Twenty-fifth Session of France-Africa Summit in 2009;
RECOGNIZES the importance of cooperation between the African Continent and France, especially at a time when Africa is initiating a new era of integration in which it welcomes intensive dialogue on various issues of development with its major cooperating partners such as France;
EXPRESSES ITS DEEP SATISFACTION at the current level of cooperation between the two parties since the inception of the process in 1973;
REQUESTS the Chairperson of the Commission to follow up the issue with the concerned parties, and to submit a report to the next Ordinary Session of the Executive Council.