Libya hosts an African summit concerning Darfur

The spokesman for the Egyptian presidency Majid Abdul Fattah said that an African summit including Sudan, Libya, Egypt, Nigeria and Chad on Darfur will be held in Libya on October 21.

The spokesman said that the mini summit over Darfur will be held under the patronage of Nigeria which assumes the Presidency of the African Union and it will include Sudan and the neighboring states which are influential in this country including Egypt, Chad and Libya.

The spokesman explained that "consultations are underway to define a date for this meeting which will be held before October 21 in Libya." The Egyptian spokesman said that the Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and all Sudanese sides will take part in the summit, in remarks to the two rebel movements in Darfur: the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice And Equity Movement.

He continued that the " summit will concentrate on means of finding out the appropriate political solution in the African context accepted by Sudan without prescribing solutions on it in order to avoid the imposition of sanctions on Sudan or internationalizing this matter," as he alleged.

The statements of the Egyptian spokesman came in conclusion of the meeting held between the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the Nigerian deputy foreign minister Abu Baker Tanko and Saeed Arabi Hafiani, the delegate of the Libyan leader Muammar al-Qathafi, who is also the secretary general of the African Union.