IGAD Ministerial Council calls for urgent action on Somalia situation

[Jacaylbaro]

Addis Ababa, June 15, 2010 (Addis Ababa) - The 36th Extra-Ordinary Meeting of the IGAD Council of Ministers held here on June 15, 2010 adopting a communiqué with 21 points after deliberating at length on the situation in Somalia.

 

Foreign Affairs minister and the current Chairperson of the IGAD Council of Ministers Seyoum Mesfin presided over the session.

 

The Council heard the report presented by Kipruto arap Kirwa, the IGAD Facilitator for the Somalia Peace and National Reconciliation and by other delegates.

 

In the communiqué issued at the end of the session the council congratulates the TFG parliament for handling the recent crisis responsibly.

 

The council commended the TFG and Ahulu Sunna Walljam'a (ASWJ) on the agreement they signed on 15th of March to work for the peace and national reconciliation of Somalia despite enormous challenges is a major and positive development .

 

The council reiterates the commitment of the members' state of IGAD to work in partnership with international community and enable the TFG to assume the full control of over the territory of Somalia.

 

The council paid tribute to AMISOM peace keeping troops and the troop contributing countries of Uganda and Burundi.

 

The council has also called upon the UN and the international community at large to enhance assistance to AMISOM.

 

The council reiterates its call to the UN to assume its responsibility by deploying AU peace keeping mission in Somalia to take over from AMISOM.

 

The council commended the effort of the outgoing special representative of UN secretary general for Somalia and welcomes the newly appointed representative.

 

The council has expressed its appreciation for the support and assistant provided by the international community to the people of and government of Somalia.

 

The council noted that the effort to stabilize the current situation in Somalia requires an input. Hence , it recommended to the IGAD assembly of heads of state and government to convene an urgent extra ordinary summit at earliest opportunity to review the serious political and security development in Somalia and the region with the objective of re-engineering the whole process.

[Jacaylbaro]

it recommended to the IGAD assembly of heads of state and government to convene an urgent extra ordinary summit at earliest opportunity to review the serious political and security development in Somalia and the region with the objective of re-engineering the whole process.

Indeed ........

 

Much needed summit with the Somaliland elections coming nearer ..........