(From L-R) Liberia's Vice-President Joseph Boakai,Portugal's Foreign Minister, whose

(From L-R) Liberia's Vice-President Joseph Boakai,Portugal's Foreign Minister, whose country currently holds the European Union presidency Luis Amado, Africa Congress Panel and former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Germany's Federal chancellor Angela Merkel, Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of The Comoros Ahmed Adbullah Sambi chat during a family photo of a EU- Africa summit 08 December 2007, in Lisbon. The leaders of Europe and Africa were to begin a landmark summit in Lisbon on Saturday, designed to forge a new partnership of equals but with expectations cooled by the long shadow of colonial history.
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