Somali President Wants Reconciliation Talks Moved To Libya -Report

[Xaq]

http://www.hiiraan.com/news2/2008/Nov/somali_presi dent_wants_reconciliation_talks_moved_to_libya_rep ort.aspx

 

TRIPOLI (AFP)--Visiting Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed said Tuesday he was seeking to move the venue of Somali reconciliation talks from Djibouti to Libya, the official Jana news agency reported.

 

"I informed the brother guide (Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi) about developments in Somalia and turned over to him the file on Somali reconciliation, asking him to take personal charge of it," the visiting Yusuf was quoted as saying.

 

He said he had asked Gadhafi to "ask Djibouti President Omar Guelleh to change the venue of the negotiations" to Libya, on the grounds that Libya has "more resources" to host the talks.

 

Somalia has lacked an effective government since the 1991 ouster of strongman Mohamed Siad Barre touched off a bloody power struggle that has defied numerous attempts to restore stability.

 

An agreement was reached at U.N.-sponsored talks in Djibouti last month between the transitional federal government and the main opposition alliance providing for a cessation of hostilities and a gradual pullback of Ethiopian troops currently in Somalia.

 

However, hardline Islamists have rejected the deal and fighting has continued to rage.

Ethiopian troops came to the rescue in late 2006 of the embattled transitional government which had been confined to the backwater of Baidoa and ousted the Islamic Courts Union from Mogadishu.

 

Source: AFP, Nov 18, 2008

[Jacaylbaro]

He said he had asked Gadhafi to "ask Djibouti President Omar Guelleh to change the venue of the negotiations" to Libya, on the grounds that Libya has "more resources" to host the talks.

Haye haye ,,,,,,,

[N.O.R.F]

Waar maxaan wiigan aragnay!

[Gabbal]

Has the game gotten interesting.

[Poker]

Norf,

 

Maxaad af soomailgii baratay!

[Abwaan]

Originally posted by Norf 1:

Waar maxaan wiigan aragnay!

loooooooool.....ma yaabtay horaan u yaabee?

[N.O.R.F]

Horn, it's gotten ridiculous saxib

 

Poker, af soomaliga waligay waan garanaayey laakin waa runtaa qoraalkaygu wu hagaagay inta aan SOL ku jiray

 

Abwaan, ruwaayad caadi'aa meesha ka socota

[nuune]

Waa markii ay wax kastaa isku dhabqi jireen!

[xiinfaniin]

loool@if such a state, still does exist even then, that is.

 

It will insha Allah. And you, unless you choose to retire in England, will be treated with dignity.

[Koora-Tuunshe]

I knew the PM was on a mission to deconstruct the TFG from the get go and weaken it in his moralistic hunt for an illusive deal with the courts. The TFG was forced to change its aggressive policies of containing the insurgents out of concern for the humanatarian disaster, yet it failed and led to the Shabaabs expansion and application of strict Sharia based norms. The long period of reconciliation efforts helped the courts and Alshabaabs have brief respite to recoup their strengths and shore up enough armaments to seize key towns and cities like Kismayo and Merka. Adde's plan was not only a bad strategy in the first place but deceptive and terminal to the TFG's earlier political gains . The TFG should have continued consolidating its power and winnowed the divisive elements out of the parliament.

 

Now that the president sees nothing but returning to the draconian measures he got used to it, I believe this painful but necessary decision would earn him sufficient support to prop up his government and reverse Shabaab's gains.