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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi King Abdullah oversaw the signing Sunday of a reconciliation agreement negotiated by several Somali factions in an attempt to stabilize their country and battle the Islamic opposition.
Cheers filled the hall where members of a high-level Somali delegation congregated after the pact was signed. The group included the premier, parliamentary speaker and president of Somalia's U.N.-backed transitional government.
A Saudi official told The Associated Press the Somalis asked that the reconciliation pact be signed in the kingdom even though it was drafted during a monthlong conference in the Somali capital of Mogadishu last month.
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