Delhi Declaration-2015

• Calls for continued collaboration in the fields of peace and security between India and Africa.
• Provide a concrete foundation for the consolidation of our strategic partnership between both sides.
• Enhance cooperation for strengthening of UN counter terrorism mechanism.
• Enhance cooperation and coordination to combat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.

India Africa Framework for Strategic Cooperation

• Reaffirmed strong commitment to work together for comprehensive reforms of the United Nations system, including its UN Security Council.
• Make these world governing institutions more regionally representative, democratic, accountable and effective.
• Agreed to establish Small and Medium Enterprises and Medium and Small Industries to promote income generation and employment creation for people of both sides.
• Ensure access to affordable and quality treatment and medicines, particularly generic medicines to people of both sides.

• It will address the key challenges faced by African nations which include food, health and environmental security etc.
• Provides India an opportunity to forge a constructive and deeper alliance with the resource-rich continent.
• India hopes to create favourable conditions through this summit to stimulate trade and investment flows between India and African countries.
• Both sides are expecting to reinforce their partnership on the global platform and deepen security cooperation including on countering terrorism and maritime security.
• The summit is considered as Prime Minister Narendra Modi led NDA Government’s biggest diplomatic outreach involving delegates from all African nations.

Logo of Third IAFS

• It depicts a Lion with one half of an Indian lion and another half of African lion.
• In the background of logo, an African map is overlapped with Indian map as a reference to ancient Gondwanaland depicting Indian subcontinent was part of today’s Africa’s continental landmass.
• Officially the logo means “Proud, Courageous, Bold and on the Prowl, ready to take on the future and seize every opportunity“.

About India–Africa Forum Summit

• IAFS is an official platform for the African-Indian relations. It is held every 3 years and the venue is selected on rotational basis from both sides.
• Agenda of the summit: It covers various fields including agricultural sector, trade, industry and investment, peace and security, promotion of good governance and civil society, information and communication technology (ICT) etc.
• First Summit: It was held in 2008 in New Delhi and was represented by 14 countries of Africa chosen by the African Union.
• Second Summit: It was held at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and 15 African countries had participated in it.
• Third Summit: Present summit was earlier scheduled in December 2014 in New Delhi, but it was postponed to October 2015 due to deadly Ebola outbreak in few western African countries.