The 3rd Turkey-Africa Summit has officially opened in Istanbul on Friday at the Ministerial level to discuss the key areas of cooperation, SONNA reported.
Speaking at the third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit, Turkish Foreign Minister Mr. Mevlut Cavusoglu said Istanbul is hosting 102 ministers from Africa, and 26 of them are foreign ministers.
“As the theme of this event is ‘Enhanced Partnership for Common Development and Prosperity’, we want to march down this path of development with African friends and take our cooperation into the future,” Cavusoglu stressed.
Noting that the three-day event is focusing on health care, education, and agriculture, Cavusoglu said that in addition to a joint declaration, an action plan for the next five years will also be unveiled at the summit.
“This action plan, which will have five main topics, includes concrete steps in various areas such as development, trade, industry, education, informatics, women, youth, infrastructure, agriculture, and health,” Cavusoglu said.
Somalia is represented by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Education and Agriculture.
This will be followed by the leaders Summit tomorrow on Saturday 18th.
