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07/08/2004:

"African leaders endorse integration plan"

ADDIS ABABA : Leaders from across Africa approved an ambitious but costly plan for continental integration and prosperity under the stewardship of the two-year-old African Union (AU) but failed to endorse its 1.7-billion-dollar price tag or agree how to fund the project.

AU spokesman Desmond Orjiako told reporters attending the organisation's third summit in Addis Ababa that leaders had endorsed texts on the "Vision and Mission" of the AU, as well as a strategic plan for 2004-7.

But Orjiako said a decision on the plan's budget and how the money should be raised had not been made.
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