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BBC MONITORING INTERNATIONAL REPORTS: EGYPT: PRESIDENT OF DJIBOUTI COMMENTS ON TALKS WITH MUBARAK
96% match; BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom ; 26-Jan-2000 12:00:00 am ; 274 words

Excerpts report in English by Egyptian news agency MENA

Cairo, 26th January: President Ismail Omar Guelleh of Djibouti Wednesday [26th January] said he and President Husni Mubarak see eye to eye on all important issues probed on Tuesday.

During a press conference at the close of his two-day visit to Egypt, Guelleh said the two countries will go on with coordination and consultation to protect their joint interests.

Guelleh-Mubarak talks covered bolstering bilateral relations in all domains, notably in economy and trade, besides the situation in Somalia, Sudan and the Horn of Africa, he said...

Guelleh supported Sudanese President Umar Bashir's steps to bring Sudan back to the Arab and African family and spare it extremism, violence and duality of power.

After President Bashir and ruling National Congress Secretary-General Hassan Turabi are back on good terms, Guelleh said the political situation in Sudan should improve and halt duality of power. The main target is to launch cooperation with Sudan as a peaceful partner and state that does not nurture extremism, he said.

As part of his efforts to reach peace in Somalia through contacts with the different factions there, Guelleh said he recently met with the advisers of Husayn Aydid in Djibouti, who were ready to attend the reconciliation conference in April.

On Egypt-Djibouti trade and economic relations, he said that the two countries could increase cooperation under the Comesa [Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa] umbrella because of the strategic place of Djibouti as a passage on the Red Sea and the customs cuts that could be given to Egyptian commodities.

Egypt will hold a fair for its products in Djibouti late in April, he said, a four-way Egypt-Djibouti-Kenya-Tanzania navigational line will be opened, and Egypt and Djibouti will set up two-way telecommunications.

Source: MENA news agency, Cairo, in English 1550 gmt 26 Jan 00


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