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IGAD backs Guelleh peace initiative

    NAIROBI

    The regional Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on Monday adopted a resolution supporting Djibouti’s peace plan for Somalia, which calls for a national reconciliation conference in April to establish a transitional administration. IGAD foreign ministers - from Djibouti, Uganda, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and Eritrea - agreed to support the Djibouti government’s 20 April to 5 May conference for peace in Somalia, the official Sudanese agency SUNA on Tuesday quoted Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail as saying. The conference aims to establish a Somali parliament, which would then elect the president and prime minister of the republic, and form a Somali government, it said. An international conference to attract international aid for stability and development would be convened after the opening of parliamentary sessions, scheduled for the end of May, Ismail added.

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