G-8 Summit Issues Action Plan for Aiding Africa's Development

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G-8 Summit Issues Action Plan for Aiding Africa's Development

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Leaders from the Group of Eight countries (G-8), joined by four African countries' leaders and the U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on Thursday mapped out an action plan for aiding Africa's development.

"We are satisfied with these commitments," Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo told reporters at a joint press conference of the summit leaders following a morning session.

"This is a beginning, a departure, not an end. We still have a lot of things to do," he said.

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretian said that "a lot of things will have to be changed in Africa, but it will be done by Africans themselves."

On its first day, G-8 summit, which opened on Wednesday in Kananaskis, about 100 kilometers west of Calgary, was dominated by U.S. President George Bush's peace plan for the Middle East as Bush tried to persuade others to support his plan.

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