Africa: Lula says Brazil cannot repay debt to Africa

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Saturday that his country would never be able to repay the 'historical debts' it owes Africa, and proposed a relations hip between Brazil and Africa that transcends trade and commerce. President Lula, who spoke as the first Brazil-ECOWAS summit got underway on the Island of Sal in Cape Verde, said conditions must be built to ensure the transfer of technology to Africa ''so that they can produce what we are producing''.