"We recommend the mobilization of all defense and security forces in the affected countries" to stop the poachers, members oftheEconomicCommunityofCentralAfricanStates said in a joint statement.
The summit oftheEconomicCommunityofCentralAfricanStates (ECCAS) accepted former rebel head Michel Djotodia as the country's leader but that he should not be called president, Reuters news agency reports.