From: Yemane Natnael (yemane_natnael@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Sep 13 2008 - 10:55:01 EDT
Eritrea adresses 5 FMs meeting over Chad, Sudan ties
Saturday, 13 September 2008
Kouchner was quoted by Sudan news agency
during the Damascus mini-summit as saying that France is prepared to
host a Sudan-Chad meeting.
Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki today addressed the 5th Foreign
Ministers Contact Group meeting on normalizing Sudanese-Chadian
diplomatic relations.
The Foreign Ministers Contact Group includes Eritrea, Senegal, Libya, Gabon and the Congo. The French government denied any plan to mediate between Sudan and Chad.According
to Sudan Tribun, a French official who spoke to Sudan Tribune on
condition of anonymity said that "There are no such plans. We fully
back the Dakar accord signed between the two countries as a framework
to resolve their differences."Kouchner was quoted by Sudan news
agency (SUNA) during the Damascus mini-summit as saying that France is
prepared to host a Sudan-Chad meeting.
On March 13, Sudan and
Chad signed Dakar Agreement, deal brokered by Senegal's President
Abdoulaye Wade. However, Sudan following a rebel attack on the capital
Khartoum on May 10 severed relations with N'Djamena and accused it of
supporting the raid.
However Sudan and Chad agreed on August 1 to restore relations and pledged to reopen mission in the two capitals.
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