It hosted the Arta conference in 2000,[56] as well as the 2008-2009 talks between the Transitional Federal Government and the Alliance for the Reliberation of Somalia, which led to the formation of a coalition government.[57] In 2011, Djibouti joined the African Union Mission to Somalia.[58] Following the establishment of the Federal Government of Somalia in 2012,[59] a Djibouti delegation also attended the inauguration ceremony of Somalia's new president.[60] Egypt See Egypt–Somalia relations Relations between the territories of present-day Egypt and Somalia stretch back to antiquity.[61] In the Middle Ages and early modern era, the various Somali Sultanates also maintained close relations with their counterparts in Egypt.[62] During the ensuing colonial period, Egypt and Somalia kept close ties through the UN delegate to Somalia Kamal El Din Salah, who supported the territorial integrity of the Somali territories.