Libya hopes France-Africa summit will become European Union-Africa summit

Libya hopes that the France-Africa summit would be enlarged to become a European Union-France summit.

The hope was expressed Wednesday by Libyan minister of African affairs, Abdessalam Triki, in a statement to MAP on the eve of the 21st France-Africa summit held Jan. 18-19 in Yaounde, Cameroon.

Despite the importance of the meetings with France and despite the weight of Paris, Libya "hopes that the Younde summit will be the last of the kind and that the meetings be changed into an Africa-European Union summit," Triki said.