The Contact Group in charge of implementing the Dakar Agreement between Chad and Sudan held recently its Fifth Ministerial meeting in Asmara, Eritrea. This meeting on September 12 was preceded by the Third Meeting of experts on Defense, Security and Intelligence which was also held in Asmara on the 10th and 11th September 2008. Ambassador Habib Kaabachi, Director in the Political affairs Department, represented the OIC General Secretariat at this ministerial meeting of the Contact Group, according to a press statement of the OIC. In a statement, the representative of the OIC stressed the particular interest given the Secretary General of the OIC to the ongoing efforts and initiatives undertaken by the Contact Group in order to re-establish peace and security between Chad and Sudan in the follow-up and implementation of the Dakar Agreement signed on the sidelines of the OIC Summit in Dakar. --MORE
