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08/23/2004:

"Somalia parliament to be inaugurated on Sunday"

NAIROBI : Somalia's new parliament was due to be inaugurated on Sunday at UN offices in Nairobi, marking a major step towards ending 13 years of anarchy in the Horn of Africa country, chief mediator Bethuel Kiplagat said.

"Definitely, the members of the Somali parliament will be sworn in tomorrow (Sunday) after 22 months of negotiations," Kiplagat, a long-serving Kenyan diplomat, told AFP.

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