Puntland pulls out of the Constitution Making Process (ready to rejoin if mistakes are corrected)

[Fiqikhayre]

Somalia: EU Monitors Constitution Making Process, Puntland Reaffirms Position.

 

Garowe (9th May-2011) A team of EU Monitors sent out to collect an independent overview of progress for EU funded programs in Somalia, visited stakeholders in Puntland, a stable state in Somalia.

 

The State Minister of the Puntland Presidency for Democratization and Federal Affairs HE Dr. Abdi Hassan Jimale (PhD) received EU Monitor Mr. Douglas McLure and Mr. Phillip Cooper, the UNDP Deputy Manager for the Somalia Governance Program in his offices at the Puntland State House.

 

Mr. Mclure visited Puntland to look at support provided by UNDP to the federal constitution making process, the position of Puntland on the constitution making process, and strategies for the way forward in the future.

 

Responding to the EU monitors inquiry, Dr. Jimale presented issues that adversely affected Puntlands participation in the constitution making process. The State Minister pointed out the key issues as the categorical exclusion of Puntland from the federal constitution making process and the IFCC, the TFGs boycott of the federal constitution launching in Somalia, and the TFGs practice of a unitary system of governance facilitated by the incorrect assumption held by the international community that the TFG represented the entire Somalia.

 

No representative from Puntland participated in this process. Dr. Jimale reiterated.

 

The TFG is responsible for the mistakes and the UN did not correct the mistakes, Dr. Jimale said. Since the international community funds this process, it is responsible for its management.

 

Position on the Constitution Making Process

 

Personally, I think the process is Utopian and a waste of resources, Dr. Jimale said. We refuse to be part of a clan-based process; a process that has illicitly replaced Puntlands learned delegation - to the constitution making process - with immature candidates of their choice.

 

The position of the Puntland government remains the same; we have pulled out of the process and opened a window of opportunity for corrections in the future Dr. Jimale said.

 

The State Minister said that Puntland would seek for inclusion in the constitution making process and embark on the harmonization of the federal and the state constitutions in the future.

 

Recommendations put forward to address challenges facing the 14th constitution making attempt in Somalia included a call for stakeholders to hold serious discussions with the TFG, a tripartite arrangement was recommended for the future and the inclusion of all stakeholder as a key step in accelerating progress and sustainability in the process .

 

The recommendations presented by the Puntland government are in line with resolutions adopted by the EU Councils 3076th FOREIGN AFFAIRS Council meeting conclusions on Somalia, in 2011.

[Liqaye]

Keeping pulling out of everything brethren, who cares?

If Cabdirashid's draft constitution is not worthy for you guys then it trully is not worth the paper it is printed on!

 

and the TFGs practice of a unitary system of governance facilitated by the incorrect assumption held by the international community that the TFG represented the entire Somalia.

 

Lool have your cake and eat it too, why don't you.

[Somalina]

Suprise suprise! hmmm! not really! it is just Odey Jimcale aka Faroole's office boy opening his mouth again!