Egyptian FM Sudanese counterpart discuss Darfur

Jan 21, 2007 (CAIRO) — Egyptian foreign minister and his Sudanese counterpart hold talks yesterday on Darfur peace implementation during a stopover of the Egyptian official at the Khartoum airport.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Aboul Gheit said Sunday talks he made with his Sudanese counterpart Lam Akol, during a stop-over Saturday in Khartoum en route back home after having led the Egyptian delegation to the fourth session of the Cairo-Nairobi committee meetings that opened in Kenya Friday, focused on the situation in Darfur.

The talks touched upon the implementation of the Addis Ababa Agreement between the Sudanese government and the UN, the Egyptian MENA reported.

Preparations for an upcoming African summit, to open in Ethiopia on 29 January, the latest developments in Somalia, as well as efforts exerted by the East African Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to form and immediately dispatch an African peace-keeping force to Somalia also figured high at the talks, he added.

(ST)