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ICWA
signs pacts with three African institutions
Thursday May 12, 2011 10:18:26 AM,
IANS
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Addis Ababa: The
Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), a think tank of the
external affairs ministry, has signed pacts with three key African
bodies as part of New Delhi's focus on finding innovative ways to
engage better with the 53-nation African continent.
The MoUs were signed by the council's director general Sudhir T.
Devare on the sidelines of a two-day conference, ahead of the
India-Africa Forum Summit here later this month to be co-chaired
by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The council already has a partnership with the Ethiopian
International Institute for Peace and Development, which co-hosted
the two-day conference that began May 11. The conference is
intended to set the agenda for the forum meeting.
The three institutions with which pacts were signed BY ICWA are
the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, Centre for Foreign and
International Studies in Mozambique and the Association for
Promotion of Institutes for Development in Niger.
The pacts, among various initiatives, call for meaningful
engagements that can promote meaningful engagement between experts
drawn from various fields, apart from looking at joint
publications, research and the conduct of seminars.
(Arvind Padmanabhan
can be contacted at arvind.p@ians.in)
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