Vietnam's Top 3 Leaders Officially Resign, can Somalia's top 3 leaders resign aswell?

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Vietnam's Top 3 Leaders Officially Resign

 

By RICHARD VOGEL

The Associated Press

Saturday, June 24, 2006; 4:45 AM

 

Vietnam's prime minister Phan Van Khai, state president Tran Duc Luongand the NA chairman Nguyen Van An appealed to resign at National Assembly Saturday on June 24,2006.[

 

 

HANOI, Vietnam -- Vietnam's president, prime minister and chief of parliament all submitted their resignations Saturday, bowing out in a long-awaited internal shuffle to make way for a new generation of leaders.

 

A spokesman for the National Assembly said legislators would vote later Saturday on whether to accept the resignations of Prime Minister Phan Van Khai, 72, President Tran Duc Luong, 69, and National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Van An, 68.

 

The result of the vote is not expected to be announced until Monday, said the official who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to address the media.

 

The changing of the guard was expected since April, when the three failed to be re-elected to the Politburo, the ruling Communist Party's innermost circle of leaders. Officially their terms do not expire until July 2007.

 

Both Khai and Luong have served two five-year terms, while An has been on the job for five years.

 

"To ensure the party's complete leadership ... and the continuous inheritance of leaders, rearranging some top state leaders is needed," Communist Party Chief Nong Duc Manh was quoted by the online VnExpress as telling the National Assembly.

 

Manh praised the three for their "strategic thinking, rich experience in leadership," it said.

 

Last month, Khai told reporters at the opening of the National Assembly session that he would retire because of his age and that he had nominated Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung as his successor.

 

Khai was appointed prime minister in 1997 and led Vietnam through the Asian financial crisis. During his tenure, the economy grew an average of 7 percent annually for the past nine years, including 8.4 percent growth last year _ the highest in a decade.

 

In 2005, Khai became the highest-ranking Vietnamese official to visit the White House since the Vietnam War ended in 1975.

 

Dung, 56, a one-time central bank governor, has long been groomed for the top spot, overseeing the economy in recent years.

 

He attended Intel's launching of a $300 million chip plant in Ho Chi Minh City earlier this year and hosted lunch for Bill Gates when the Microsoft chairman visited Hanoi in April.

 

Party officials have said that Nguyen Minh Triet, 64, currently party secretary for Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's economic engine, is the front-runner for president.

 

Nguyen Phu Trong, 62, now the party boss for the capital, Hanoi, was poised to replace An as the National Assembly chairman.

 

The National Assembly will elect the three new leaders next week before the legislature wraps up its six-week session on Thursday, the official from the National Assembly's office said.

 

They will be tasked with maintaining political stability and high economic growth, while also fighting rampant corruption, which the party said has caused people to lose confidence in its leadership.

 

An told local media recently that the new leaders should be in place before Vietnam hosts a summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in November. President Bush is among the leaders expected to attend.

 

The National Assembly is also expected to approve the appointments of six ministers including the ministers of defense, foreign affairs and transport, the official said.

[General Duke]

vietnam has a system that works, can Somalia create its own system?

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East Timor prime minister resigns

By Shawn Donnan in Jakarta

 

Published: June 26 2006 05:56 | Last updated: June 26 2006 05:56

 

 

East Timor’s embattled prime minister, Mari Alkatiri, announced his resignation on Monday, bowing to weeks of growing pressure from protesters and senior Timorese leaders.

 

Mr Alkatiri, who has been accused of working with a political ally to arm a hit squad to target opponents and of mishandling the current crisis in the country, announced his resignation during a press conference in Dili.

 

His capitulation came after the surprise resignation of Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta as defence and foreign minister on Sunday, in a move that intensified pressure for the prime minister to resign.

 

Until now, Mr Alkatiri had denied any wrongdoing and argued his resignation would lead to the toppling of a democratically-elected government and set a bad precedent for the four-year-old country.

 

Mr Ramos-Horta is seen as a leading candidate to replace Mr Alkatiri but whether he will do so is not immediately clear. Some have mentioned Mr Ramos-Horta’s former wife, Anna Pessoa, the deputy prime minister, as a possible candidate to lead the government as it prepares for elections next year.

 

The prime minister’s resignation come at a crucial time. A senior United Nations envoy is expected to arrive on Monday for consultations over the shape of a new UN mission to help the country, which it governed from 1999 until 2002, emerge from its current crisis.

 

It remained unclear whether President Xanana Gusmao – who last week called for Mr Alkatiri’s resignation over the hit squad allegations – to dissolve parliament and appoint an interim government led by the Nobel laureate.

 

Mr Gusmao, a former guerilla leader who is treated with Mandela-like reverence in East Timor, does not explicitly have the power to sack a government under the constitution. However, diplomats said a passage describing the president as “guarantor†of the “unity of the state†and “the smooth functioning of democratic institutions†could give him the power to intervene.

 

Mr Ramos-Horta, 56, first drew international attention in 1975 following the Indonesian invasion of East Timor when he became a spokesman for the government in exile of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, or Fretilin.

 

He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996 together with Bishop Carlos Bello, leader of the powerful Catholic church in East Timor at the time. The prize raised the international profile of East Timor and Indonesia’s brutal occupation of the former Portuguese colony.

 

In 1999 a UN-organised ballot led to almost 80 per cent of East Timorese voting for independence. Jakarta’s scorched-earth exit after the vote left up to 1,500 dead.

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taariikhda somalia ma ku jirtaa siyaasi sare oo iscasilay?

 

Is there any Somali politician (top official like president, prime minister or speaker of parliament) who resigned in somali history? Because of scandal, pressure from public, or crisis

 

Dukow

Iscasilidu waxeeba siifiicantahay marka ey system jirin

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Salaan...

 

Soomaalida dhaqankooda wax is casil kuma jiro. Either xoog ayaa looga qaadaa mise wax kale ku dhaceyso. Dadka is casilo, ama aayahooda ugu tago Soomaali waxee ka qabaan an archaic view that qofkaas inuu yahay qof daciif ah. Kii xoog ku amrana inuu yahay kaliye taliye ayee aaminsan yihiin. Meel loo raaco maleh.

 

Waxaan xasuustaa this great gentleman, whose wife was a family friend. He worked for dowladii kacaanka, at its central Bankiga Dhexe. Because of his position, he accumulated a great wealth and prestige. Fortunately, he became qof diinta ku dhaqmo, and sensing that wuxuu kasbaday dhan inay ahayn 'xalaal,' he consulted to some wadaado, and they advised him to give up all his wealth, except to those that he knew and was sure uu xalaal ku keensaday, which were his first house and car.

 

He decided in uu celiyo all other houses, which numbered four or five, including villas and mansions. He also decided wax walba in uu celiyo, u celiyo dowladda -- the cars, the farms, his senior position at work.

 

His family quickly had a crisis, especially his sub-clan members. They tried to dissuade him, wuuna ka diiday. They also advised him, should he insist on his opinion, in uu u qeybiyo the wealth to his extended family and sub-clan members, which uu ka diiday again. They finally declared him to be on the verge of insanity. He told them whatever, that wax walba wuu celinaa. By God, he did it. And few months later, the civil war broke in Xamar.

 

Now, that is true gentleman with defined sumcad. Many Soomaali men wax uu sameeye inay sameyaan iska dhaafee, meeshuu joogay dagaal iyo wax kale inay ku gaaraan rabo, iskaba dhaaf inay iska casilaan.

 

The last I heard the gentleman became a big tabliiq and was living in Bakistaan, happily, I guess.

[Sophist]

Miskiinoow waa runtaa! Tusaale ayuu mudan yahay ninkaan aan isku magaalada nahay.

[nuune]

Qof madaxtinimo iyo xukun jecel wey ku adagtahey siduu isku casilaa.

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Originally posted by Sophist:

Miskiinoow waa runtaa! Tusaale ayuu mudan yahay ninkaan aan isku magaalada nahay.

Sofka, waa lagu salaamay, duqa. Long time iga dheh.

 

Laakiin do you know him? Nin aqiyaar buu ahaa. His wife now lives in London, I don't know if asagana kusoo noqday London.

 

And if you have the complete story, ii sheegba. I am not sure if my version's detail is correct.