"Europe is confirming that it is playing a guiding role in the sphere of aids to Africa, in agreement with what it had proven last year, when all the EU countries committed themselves to achieve the target of 0.7% of official aids to development by 2015". This was said by the secretary general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, in his message for the European Development Days that started yesterday in Brussels (until November 17th). "Such commitment wrote Annan has been a milestone in the history of cooperation to development, with which the European union has shown to the rest of the world that it is serious about the need to make a real difference in the lives of millions of Africans, challenging the other industrialised countries to do the same. In doing so, the EU has laid the grounds for the Final Document of the results of the World Summit of last year". The challenge is, according to the secretary general, to "fulfil all the obligations undertaken at the Summit and speed up our efforts to achieve all the development targets of the millennium by 2015. If we make it, it will be above all thanks to the guidance of Europe". For more information on the European Development Days, visit the website www.eudevdays.eu.
