On the eve of the two-day India-Africa Forum summit, foreign ministers and officials from African countries and India on Monday finalised the two outcome documents, a Delhi Declaration and an Africa-India Framework for Cooperation. They will be unveiled by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the next two days.

On Monday, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, in his opening address to the foreign ministers, said: “The Delhi Declaration will be a political document and would cover issues of bilateral, regional and international interest to India and Africa, including our common positions on UN Reforms, climate change, WTO and international terrorism.”

Mukherjee said the framework for cooperation will spell out agreed areas of cooperation. “The areas on which we have agreed to focus include human resources and institutional capacity building, education, science and technology, agricultural productivity and food security, industrial growth, including small and medium enterprises and minerals, development of the health sector, development of infrastructure, ICT and the establishment of judicial systems with police and defence establishments under civilian control.” Mukherjee also put climate change, terrorism and UN reforms on the agenda for discussions.

Nearly 15 heads of African countries are expected to attend the summit.