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Article: Somaliland Recognition & Development Convention Opens in Washington Metro Area Friday - Sunday
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- September 8, 2006
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice takes her message of a new American foreign policy
emphasizing democracy and human rights to Africa and the Middle East,
a convention to discuss those same issues is being held this weekend
in the Washington metro area. Those topics are this weekend's subject
of discussion, plus Somaliland's quest for international recognition.
Representatives of the Somaliland government, political parties, the
business community, civil society, student associations and friends
of Somaliland will participate in the three-day Convention.
The convention is sponsored by the local Somaliland Policy &
Reconstruction Institute ...