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Leaders to meet at summit

    NAIROBI

    President Isayas Afewerki will hold talks in coming days on the sidelines of the UN Millennium Summit in New York with Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on “strengthening and developing” bilateral relations, Eritrean state radio reported on Wednesday.

    “Ten days ago the two presidents met in Djibouti at the inauguration of the newly elected Somali president,” it said. Before he left for New York, it said Afewerki had met John Garang, leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM, and the chairman of the opposition Sudanese National Democratic Alliance, Muhammad Uthman al-Mirghani. The radio report gave no further details of the talks.

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