Assembly/AU/Dec.442(XIX) Page 3 15. ACKNOWLEDGES Africa’s recent partnership engagements at the G8 and G20 Summits held in Camp David, United States and Los Cabos, Mexico in May and June 2012 respectively and WELCOMES the New Alliance for Food and Nutrition Security in Africa as a notable outcome of the G8 Summit WHILE UNDERSCORING the imperative for the Initiative to be aligned with identified African priorities and systems as reflected in CAADP and REITERATES that G8 countries should fulfil their outstanding commitments to Africa especially those made at Gleneagles and L’Aquila; 16. CALLS FOR deeper engagement and increased level of interaction between African and G8 leaders at G8/Africa Outreach Sessions, adequate consultations amongst invited African leaders prior to these Sessions and appropriate preparations through the Africa Partnership Forum (APF) to assure its value addition as platform for dialoguing on the Continent’s priorities for the G8 partnership process; 17. THEREFORE MANDATES the HSGOC Chairperson to lead a multi-pronged lobby campaign to reinvigorate this high level partnership with the G8 with the technical support of the Agency, and REQUESTS NPCA in collaboration with the Commission to engage the Government of United Kingdom as a country to assume G8 Presidency in 2013 to ensure that African priorities and interests are fully reflected in the agenda of the G8 in 2013; 18. REAFFIRMS the G20 as key platform for Africa to strengthen collaboration towards promoting global economic cooperation and ACKNOWLEDGES the relevant outcomes arising from the 2012 G20 Summit as they relate to Africa, especially the 'AgResults' Initiative to improve food security by encouraging private sector innovation of new agricultural products and systems, encouraging the implementation of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) programme and the Los Cabos Growth and Jobs Action Plan to stimulate global employment and growth. APPRECIATES the continuing work of the G20 High Level Panel on Infrastructure and RE-STATES the need for the Panel to consider leveraging public funds in form of surpluses available in emerging economies for higher investment returns in developing Africa’s infrastructure; 19. RECALLS Decision Assembly/AU/7(XVIII) and NOTES progress by the Commission and NPCA under the auspices of the Africa Platform for Development Effectiveness (APDev) in actively advancing Africa’s quest for adequate voice in the Global Partnership (GP) for Effective Development Cooperation and COMMENDS the contributions of the Governments of South Africa, Rwanda and Mali to the Post-Busan Interim Group (PBIG) which made proposals on the governance structures and monitoring framework for Busan commitment; 20. NOTES the allocation of two (2) seats to Africa in the new Global Partnership namely Co-Chair, representing the AU and other recipients of development