EU-Africa summit 'turning point'
07/12/2007 11:23  - (SA)  

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Blantyre - Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika said on Friday that this weekend's European Union-Africa summit in Portugal would be a "turning point" in relations between the continents.

"I think this (summit) will be a turning point in the relations between Europe and Africa because we will be looking at new areas, which will strengthen Africa's economy and political institutions so that we can become better partners," said Mutharika.

The two-day summit in Lisbon begins on Saturday.

He said Malawi would ink an agreement, on the sidelines of the summit, under which the EU would give $630m to help spur economic development in Malawi, where half of its 12 million people lived below the poverty line.

"I have told the Europeans that a stronger Africa economically and politically is a better trading partner for Europe than a weaker one," the president, an economist, said.

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