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ECOWAS contact group begins meeting in Abidjan.
(From Panafrican News Agency (PANA) Daily Newswire)
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - South African President Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday joined three heads of state within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) contact group at a summit convened in Abidjan in a bid to find a solution to the Ivorian crisis.
The current African Union (AU) chairman, presidents Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali and Niger's Mamadou Tandja attended the summit chaired by Togo's Gnassingbe Eyadema.
Nigerian foreign minister Souley Lamido and Ghanaian vice president Aliu Mahama represented presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and John Kufuor, respectively. Guinea Bissau was not represented.
Eyadema urged his counterparts to resolutely work for a solution to the Ivorian crisis because, he said, "all West Africans are proud of Cote d'Ivoire" as a country.
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