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Sudanese president arrives in Libya to attend regional summit

May 28, 2009 (TRIPOLI) — President Omer Al-Bashir arrived today to the Libyan capital to participate in a regional meeting despite an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court.

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi greets Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, right, upon his arrival in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, March 26, 2009 (AP)
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi greets Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, right, upon his arrival in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, March 26, 2009 (AP)
This is the second visit of the Sudanese president to Libya after the ICC arrest warrant o. It is also the seventh one outside Sudan since last March.

The summit of Community of Sahel-Saharan States (Cen-Sad) will begin on 29. Libya said all the leaders of the member states would attend the meeting.

Bashir held this evening a closed door meeting with the Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi. The two leaders were expected to tackle the ongoing tension between Sudan and Chad.

The official SUNA reported that talks dealt with bilateral relations between the two countries, besides regional issues of concern to member States of the Cen-Sad.

Chad is a member of the regional economic organization. The issue of Sudan-Chad relations is seen as crucial to end the six-year Darfur conflict, is expected to be discussed in the meeting.

The member states of the Cen-Sad are: Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo and Tunisia.

(ST)

2 Comments

  • Sala Gai
    Sala Gai

    Sudanese president arrives in Libya to attend regional summit
    President Omer Al-Bashir, you are truely to move around the Arab country because the ICC is ever say but not to implement so you are very luck to kill more like what you are ever doing in the Suoth like cool killing.
    Iam calling the Sudanese East, Suoth ,Darfur,Nubia to see into these problem that facing Darfur,but the really Sudanese not whose who came through business to hear me.
    I hope they will go back the came if we united together
    Iam calling for the unity black poeple
    Sudan the country of black.

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