There will be no dealing with them, there will be diplomatic isolation as well. Algerian spokesman Boualem Bessaieh told reporters that there was widespread support for a suggestion from Nigeria's newly elected President Olusegun Obasanjo for 2000 to be declared the year of peace and security in Africa. But he cautioned against what he called imported models for democracy. African leaders, who have turned out in force for the summit, are focusing on the twin goals of ensuring that their continent can embrace economic globalisation on its own terms and find home-grown solutions to its wars, officials say. Obasanjo, who last addressed an OAU summit as his country's military ruler two decades ago, set the tone at the start of the three-day meeting on Monday.
Algerian officials say that conflict resolution has been at the heart of discussions.
U.N. refugee chief Sadako Ogata welcomed fledgling peace deals to end the wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sierra Leone but expressed concern about the plight of civilians caught up in the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia. Ogata took a bleak view on developments in the Horn of Africa, where the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea has driven an estimated 600,000 people from their homes. There are no solutions. I'm very concerned about the situation of the war there. Kabila and the presidents of Zimbabwe, Namibia and Chad, whose troops fought for him, were at the summit with presidents of Rwanda and Uganda, whom Kabila accuses of invading.