Mattei Plan means coop on equal footing says Mattarella

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 5 - Italy's ambitious Mattei Plan to fund development projects in Africa with the aim of stemming migrant departures entails cooperation on an equal footing, President Sergio Mattarella told Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on the second and last stage of his African trip in Accra on Friday.
    Mattarella also stressed that naming the plan after late Eni oil group founder Enrico Mattei was "not accidental because Mattei really was a great friend of Africa, of the whole continent, against all forms of colonial exploitation, for collaboration on an equal footing to safeguard local resources and that is also the objective of the Mattei Plan".
    "The plan is therefore for a collaboration according to the indications and defined needs of the continent's countries".
    (ANSA).