Thank you for your cooperation.
The growing gulf between Saudi Arabia and its more sceptical western partners is nowhere more apparent than in the key area of security and defence cooperation, upon which the relationship was founded in 1915.
The centres, proposed by the EU in cooperation with Niger, "should be an opportunity to bring ambitious development policies for migrants and for states", said Bernard Cazeneuve, who was in the Nigerien capital, Niamey, for talks with the president.
"[Russia] thinks strategically", he said, "and they are taking the right approach by using their expertise in everything from arms to nuclear power to satellite technology in order to ensure mutually advantageous cooperation with strategic African partners.
"We are open to everything, all forms of cooperation".
"But there are also more material expectations in the sectors of trade, investment, energy and defence cooperation," he added.
It is the lack of this cooperation that has contributed to the ineffectiveness of anti-insurgency tactics that Nigeria was adopting.
Beyond the pain and trauma caused by breast ironing, an extensive study conducted by the German cooperation agency, GTZ, showed that there are a serious number of physical and mental health implications: the most serious include an elevated cancer risk, the inability to produce breast-milk, and psychological problems.
(The Commons foreign affairs committee merely noted in a recent report that while defence cooperation and arms sales with Bahrain had "proved controversial" since the violent events of 2011, it was "persuaded that Bahrain provides an immensely valuable home in the Gulf for UK naval assets which would be difficult to find elsewhere").
With the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation due to meet on Thursday, the key issue on the agenda will be the results of Israel's elections in the context of the decision taken earlier this year by a lower PLO body to call for the ending of security cooperation with Israel.
The action plan cites climate change as "a key element of preventive diplomacy," aimed at preventing future violent conflicts through cooperation and dialogue.
