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Somalia: Interim Government to Attend Arab Trade Meeting

9 May 2001

Somalia will attend an Arab free trade meeting to be held in Iraq in early June. The meeting, to be attended by the economy and trade ministers of 10 Arab League member states, would be held in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, from 6 to 7 June, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said on Tuesday.

The ministers, representing the 10-member Council of Arab Economic Unity, will discuss ways of establishing a free trade zone. The members of the council are Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, Mauritania, the Palestinian Authority, and Somalia. The meeting would be the first of its kind to be held in Iraq since the 1991 Gulf war, AFP said.

Tagged: East Africa, Somalia

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