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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Kigali, Rwanda (APA) - The Somalia President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on a state visit to Rwanda on Monday expressed his country’s wish to join the East African Community to his host President Paul Kagame, APA learns here.
According to state radio, President Sharif expressed his wish while on a visit to Kagame’s office in Kigali where he asked his host to present his wish and advocate for him to his fellow regional heads of state.
In response President Kagame promised full support of Somalia’s wish to join the Community.
The two presidents also discussed ways of uniting the Somali fighting forces into a national army.
President Sharif told President Kagame that his country was working on a unity and reconciliation program noting that he and his delegation expected to learn from Rwanda’s experience in uniting conflicting nationals.
President Sharif is in the country with a delegation of eleven ministers for a three day state visit. He arrived Sunday night from Bujumbura, Burundi.
Source: APA, Mar 17, 2009