SANA'A, March 18 (Saba) - Well-informed sources said on Thursday that Djibouti has announced its desire to join into the Sana'a Forum.

The sources told that weekly 26septmber that Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi has received a letter from his Djiboutian counterpart in this regard.

Djibouti, if accepted, will be the fifth member in the forum that includes Yemen, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somali.

Sana'a Forum is established in Sana'a in 2002. Its foundation was based on a suggestion of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in a tripartite summit in Sana'a gathered beside him the Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir and Ethiopian prime Minister Meles Zenawi held in Sana'a. Somalia has been joined in the Forum later.

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