Addis
Ababa, June 2 (ENA)-- Prime Minister Meles Zenawi received a message sent from
the Djiboutian president Ismael Omar Guelleh here on Friday.
Djiboutian
Prime Minister Dileita Mohamod Dileita, who was the former Djiboutian ambassador
to Ethiopia, delivered the message to Meles, a spokesperson of the ministry of
foreign affairs said.
The
message focused on the meeting to be held between the heads of the two states to
step up the existing Ethio-Djibouti fraternal relations, the spokesperson said.
Similarly,
Rwandan presidential Advisor, Dr. Emmanuel Ndahiru, delivered Rwandan president
Paul Kagame's message to Meles.
President
Kagame expressed in his message Rwanda's desire to deepen its bilateral
cooperation with Ethiopia.
The
message also dealt with the upcoming discussions to be held between the heads of
the two governments on the situation of the Great Lakes Region, the spokesperson
said.
Meles
said on the occasion that Ethiopia was equally willing to strengthen its
bilateral relations with Rwanda.
In
a related development, defense minister of the democratic republic of the Congo,
Irung A.W. An, handed over to Meles the message from that country's president,
Joseph Kabila.
Kabila recalled that at the heads of state meeting in Sirte, Libya, he
had had the opportunity to meet and confer with Prime Minister Meles on ways of
consolidating the bilateral ties between his country and Ethiopia.
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