Chad summit called
NZPA-Reuter Abidjan,! Ivory Coast The chairman of the Organisation of African Unity has ■ called for an< grgent summit -meeting of the 50nation body to discuss the controversial plan for a merger between Libya and Chad, Accra Radio has reported. The reported call by the chairman, President Siaka Stevens of Sierra Leone, folexpressions of l serious, concern by African and other countries over the projected merger. Accra Radio, monitored in Abidjan, also said a meeting of the special O.A.U. committee on Chad will take!
, place in Lome, Togo, today. But informed sources ;*in' ■ Lome said yesterday, nothing ■ had been-planned: sb'fari,ras : the Togolese were preparing to celebrate their national day tomorrow. ■ The Sudanese news agency. I (Suna) . also reported the ■ conference call by President; Stevens and said that Presi- ; dent Jaafar Nemery' of i Sudan was prepared: :tb act ■as host for the summit ! meeting in his capital, Kh£ri' i'toum.? . . “ ■ Earlier, - President Stevens had himself eaqiressed coh-> i cern over the Libyan move ; which he described as a complete handing over of rChad to Libya.
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