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Article: Roundup: COMESA summit opens, with strong call for regional integration
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- June 7, 2004
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Roundup: COMESA summit opens, with strong call for regional
integration
by Chen Cailin, Chen Yao
KAMPALA, June 7 (Xinhua) -- The Ninth Summit of Heads of State and
Government of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
(COMESA) opened here Monday morning, with a strong call for regional
integration.
"Regional political, social and economic integration is not only
desirable but a matter of survival for Africa," said Yoweri Museveni,
president of the host country, who accepted the COMESA chair from
Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed Al-Bashir at the opening of the
summit in Kampala, capital of Uganda.
Present at the two-day summit were nine heads of state and
government, ...