ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- African Leaders arrived here Sunday to take part in the fifth extraordinary summit of the African Union (AU), in a bid to break a stalemate over the bloc's stance on stalled UN reform.

    AU officials said presidents of Namibia, Sierra Leone, Zambia and Zimbabwe were among the leaders who arrived here.

    Prime minister of Algeria, Djibouti, Lesotho and Tanzania as well as South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma also arrived, they said.

    They added Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, also AU's current chairman, is expected to arrive here on Monday morning.

    In August, after heated debate, the pan-African body rejected calls to change its demand for a 26-member UN Security Council with six new permanent, veto-wielding seats, of which Africa will have two, and five non-permanent seats of which Africa would have two.

    At the time, AU leaders rebuffed an appeal to join the G4 grouping of Brazil, India, Japan and Germany that has proposed expanding the council to 25 members, with six new permanent seats without veto power and four non-permanent seats. Enditem