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The 14th Francophonie Summit was the first to be held in Central Africa and the fifth in Africa. Canada’s participation in the Kinshasa Summit formed part of a strategy to strengthen dialogue on human rights, democratic principles and good governance in the DRC with a range of stakeholders in government, civil society and the business community. The theme of the Summit, “La Francophonie, Economic and Environment Issues in the face of Global Governance”, was designed to express La Francophonie’s wish to make globalization beneficial to all, especially the people of Africa, through a series of tangible and measurable commitments. These commitments are contained in the Kinshasa Declaration and five resolutions on 1) the situation in Mali; 2) the situation in the DRC; 3) piracy in the Gulf of Guinea; 4) good governance of the extractive and forest industries (introduced by Canada); and 5) crisis situations, crisis recovery and peacebuilding in La Francophonie.
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