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Mini summit in Lome

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    West African heads of states were due to meet on Tuesday afternoon in Togo's capital, Lome, to try to finalise a peace plan to end the civil war in Sierra Leone. The talks were expected to include the leaders of Burkina Faso, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, the press spokesman for Togo's
    president told IRIN on Tuesday.

    In a speech broadcast to the nation on Monday, the president of Sierra Leone, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, said he was travelling to Lome to "finalise a comprehensive peace agreement, which, with God's grace will lay a solid foundation for sustainable peace which has eluded us over the past nine years".

    According to AFP, Revolutionary United Front (RUF) leader Foday Sankoh said on Monday that the rebels' People's War Council had reservations about key elements of the draft agreement and wanted seven cabinet posts including the Ministry of Mines in a transitional government as well as the vice-presidency. The government had offered four cabinet posts.

    By late afternoon the BBC reported that the leaders of Burkina Faso, Liberia and Nigeria had arrived in Lome but Kabbah was experiencing some "flight and communication difficulties".

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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