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Arab League offers to host national reconciliation conference

    NAIROBI

    The Somali committee of the Arab League also met on Monday to discuss Djibouti’s plan to help establish peace and stability in Somalia, news organisations reported. The secretary-general of the League, Esmat Abdel-Meguid, on Sunday expressed its willingness to host a national reconciliation conference for Somalia. He blamed Somali faction leaders for the chaos in the country and called on all countries, especially Somalia’s neighbours, to observe a UN Security Council resolution banning the export of weapons to Somalia. The Arab League’s Somalia committee comprises Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Tunisia and Yemen.

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