{"id":15476,"date":"2011-12-17T12:27:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T10:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=15476"},"modified":"2011-12-17T12:27:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T10:27:17","slug":"turkey-african-foreign-ministers-258","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkey-african-foreign-ministers-258\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Hosts African Foreign Ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/african-turkey-foreign-ministers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15477\" title=\"Turkey Hosts African Foreign Ministers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/african-turkey-foreign-ministers-280x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/african-turkey-foreign-ministers-280x185.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/african-turkey-foreign-ministers-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/african-turkey-foreign-ministers.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>A conference on African Relations between the Foreign Ministers of Turkey and Africa nations was held on Friday at Istanbul\u2019s famed Ciragan Palace Hotel.<\/h2>\n<p>Davutoglu delivered a speech at the opening of the Turkey-Africa Partnership Ministerial Review Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu welcomed other delegation chiefs. Davutoglu stated he believed Turkey and Africa shared a common destiny. Davutoglu said that the number of Turkey&#8217;s diplomatic missions to Africa has tripled in recent years while the number of Turkish embassies in Africa rose to 33 in 2012 from 12 only a few years before.<\/p>\n<p>Africa Union Term President and Foreign Affairs Minister of Equator Guinea Eustaquio Nseng Esono stated that Africans want to strengthen the cooperation between Turkey and the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey and Africa aim to raise their trade volume to 50 billion USD, diplomatic sources said. Turkey&#8217;s trade volume with Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to reach 6 billion USD this year. It was 742 million USD in 2000. Meanwhile, Turkey&#8217;s total trade volume with the continent of Africa has climbed to 14.1 billion USD from 9 billion USD between 2005 and 2010. It is expected to reach 50 billion USD in the near future. Moreover, Turkey will extend 1 million USD of assistance to African Union every year for economic and humanitarian projects.<\/p>\n<p>After the conference the attendees of the Conference at Ciragan Palace had a group family photo taken. All the foreign affairs ministers in attendance with their families came and posed for a photograph in the palace garden of Ciragan Palace.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! 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