EGYPT TO HOST NINE-NATION AFRICAN TALKS THIS MONTH
Representatives of nine African countries
will meet here on March 11 to discuss the African debt crisis,
the Chad political situation and other issues, Egypt's Minister
of State for Foreign Affairs, Boutros Boutros Ghali, said.
    He told reporters on his return from Ethiopia and Djibouti
that the meeting and venue had been agreed by the Organisation
of African Unity (OAU). He said Egypt, Zambia, Djibouti, Zaire,
Uganda, Sierra Leone, Congo, Algeria and Mali would be
represented. Foreign Ministry sources said Congo President
Denis Sassou-Nguesso would chair the meeting.
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