Five-Nation Mini-Summit
(PANA) - Libya is hosting a five- nation mini-summit of African leaders for consultation ahead of the next summit of the African Union (AU) slated for 1-3 February in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
A diplomatic source told PANA on Saturday in Tripoli that the mini-summit, which was scheuled to start on Saturday, would bring together the Libyan leader Mouammar Kaddafi, Gabonese President Omar Bongo, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, Comoran leader Ahmed Abdallah Sambi and Mauritanian head of state Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallah.
The Addis Ababa summit will address, among other things, the setting up of an African federal government and industrialisation on the continent.
Kaddafi has been making considerable effort to speed up the establishment of the African federal government and the Unites States of Africa.
The last AU summit held in Accra in July 2007 to address the establishment of the African federal government developed a road map for the setting up of necessary conditions for the objective.
The Libyan leader has championed the setting up an African federal government to achieve the integration of African countries.
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