The participants discussed the appropriate solutions to meet the growing phenomenon of asylum, including the voluntary return of refugees to the safe areas in their home, as well as ways to enhance the coordination between the participating countries in the different issues concerning the Somali refugees.

At the end of the conference, the participants approved Addis Ababa's obligation document on Somali refugees, which underlined the support of the international community to Somali refugees and their host countries. They stressed the importance of implementing the recommendations of this conference and the regional meetings on refugees, topped by Sana'a Conference on asylum and migration from the horn of Africa to Yemen held in Sana'a on November 2013.