Egypt, Libya issue joint communique after talks

Talks between Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Musa, the secretary of the Libyan General People’s Committee for External Liaison Umar al-Muntasir and the Sudan Foreign Minister Mustafa Uthman Isma’il ended on Tuesday with the three ministers signing a joint communique in which they stressed the strategic relations linking the three countries. The communique stated that the Libyan-Egyptian initiative derives its special importance from the fact that it pursues the path of a comprehensive solution toward realising peace and national accord in the Sudan, affirming the importance of uniting their efforts to support this initiative, the Sudanese news agency (SUNA) said. It underscored the continuity of the countries’ endeavours to consolidate the relations between them in political, economic, cultural and other fields, in compliance with the agreement achieved by leaders of the three countries. It also stressed the importance of coordination between the IGAD and the joint Egyptian-Libyan initiatives. The ministers agreed to hold periodical meetings in any capital of the three countries successively, under the chairmanship of one of them. A preparatory meeting for these meetings is to held at the experts’ level in Cairo in February.