The third Africa-EU summit ended Tuesday with African and EU leaders calling for joint efforts in encouraging investment, creating employment and strengthening cooperation in the partnerships between African countries and the EU. The summit issues the Tripoli Declaration and the second Action Plan for the Joint Africa-EU Strategy. Participating leaders agreed to step up joint efforts in encouraging investment growth, creating economic growth, especially in Africa, and enhance cooperation in the fields such as peace and security, energy, climate change and infrastructure construction. Following existing commitments for the period of the next three years, the EU will provide 50 billion euros to support the overall objective of Joint Africa- EU Partnership, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy said. The summit failed to pass a joint Africa-EU declaration on climate change given strong opposition from the African countries. The next summit will be held in Brussels in 2013. 