A donor conference to gather funds for war-torn Somalia is to take place in Sweden on October 28, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said her on Saturday.
In announcing the event, Solana told reporters the gathering in Stockholm on Thursday would be "a sign of good will of the international community to rebuild a peaceful Somalia."
Solana, who was in the Ethiopian capital for talks with new Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, to show EU support for getting Somalia, since 1991 without an internationally recognized government, back on its feet.
The country has been under the control of diverse armed factions for more than 13 years.
The EU's foreign policy chief did not give any figures on how much aid the Horn of Africa state would need, and said he backed the possibility of an African Union peacekeeping force for the country, which he promised would also get Un backing.
Solana also met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and African Union chairman Alpha Oumar Konare before later flying on to Khartoum to discuss the crisis in Darfur, Sudan.