From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Sun Aug 17 2008 - 01:32:29 EDT
Libyan, Eritrean foreign ministers discuss Sudan-Chad relations
Sunday 17 August 2008 03:00.
August 16, 2008 (TRIPOLI) - Eritrean and Libyan foreign ministers
discussed today the ongoing preparations to hold a meeting of a contact
group charged with the implementation of Dakar Agreement signed last
March between Chad and Chad.
Eritrea will host on August 26 a meeting of the group to discuss
mechanisms related to the deployment of the joint patrols throughout
border between the two countries. This meeting comes after the
acceptance of a Libyan initiative to restore diplomatic relations
between Khartoum and Ndjamena.
Eritrean Foreign Minister, Osman Mohamed Saleh, held talks on Saturday
with his Libyan counterpart Abdel Rahman Mohamed Shalgam on the agenda
of the meeting of contact group. The two parties agreed to include the
implementation of the Libyan initiative to reconcile the two
neighbouring countries.
Saleh arrived to Tripoli from Khartoum where he discussed with the
Sudanese president the proposed agenda for the 26 August meeting. He
told the reporters following the meeting that the Eritrean government
would conduct meetings with the leaders of Sudan and Chad so as to
normalize relations between the two countries.
According to a non-aggression pact signed in the Senegalese capital, on
the sidelined of the Islamic Conference summit on March 13, Sudan and
Chad agreed to deploy a monitoring force to ensure stability on the
joint border and to establish a contact group composed of Congo,
Eritrea, Gabon, Libya and Senegal.
Under the Dakar deal, Chad and Sudan promised to stop all armed and
organized activities and banned actions threatening each other's
national security.
Sudan had broken off relations with Chad after a raid on the capital
Khartoum by the Justice and Equality Movement. President Omer al-Bashir
accused Chad to providing the rebel group with the material and
logistical support to carry out the May 10 attack.
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