Sudanese, Ethiopian, Yemeni summit next Monday

The foreign ministers of the Sanaa coalition will hold a meeting on Sunday in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in order to approve works of the tripartite summit between Sudan, Ethiopia and Yemen.

The tripartite summit is expected to be held next Monday, and will last for two days with the participation of the Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi. In press statements on Thursday, the Yemeni foreign minister Abu Baker al-Qurabi, said that the agenda of the summit includes signing of the agreement of establishing the coalition of Sanaa, and discussing the report on the coalition activities for last year. He added that a meeting for businessmen will be held in the sideline of the summit, in order to create links between the chambers of commerce, and establish the nucleus for a holding company by the national capital funding in the three countries, in addition to revitalizing economic cooperation and develop the idea of establishing a free trade market.

The Yemeni minister explained that the leader of the coalition will discuss means of enhancing security cooperation, and fighting terrorism, and protecting water passage ways in the Red Sea and the African horn, as well as fighting smuggling. He said that the summit will discuss the peace march in Sudan, developments pertaining to the Somali national reconciliation conference, in support of reaching a new formula for a stable future, and ending the negotiations in a way satisfactory for all.