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Mbeki and Chiluba to join in summit meeting

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    South African President Thabo Mbeki and Foreign Minister Nkosazana Zuma were scheduled to leave for the summit meeting in Tanzania on Tuesday afternoon, the Chinese news agency reported presidential spokesman Parks Mankahlana as saying. "We are going there with an open mind on who will be the facilitator," Mankahlana said, adding that the meeting was aimed at re-evaluating the Burundi peace process and discussing how it could best be moved forward. Zambian President Frederick Chiluba - mediator for the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) peace process for the DRC, which delivered the Lusaka ceasefire agreement - was scheduled to leave for the Burundi summit on Wednesday morning, news organisations reported.

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