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Delegation Leaves for Igad Ministerial Meet

The Ethiopian Herald (Addis Ababa)
NEWS
November 30, 2005
Posted to the web November 30, 2005

By ENA
Addis Ababa
A high-level Ethiopian government delegation led by State Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Dr. Tekeda Alemu has left for Somalia to attend the Inter-Governmental
Authority on Development (IGAD) ministerial meeting that will raise issues on
Somalia.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs told ENA yesterday that a delegation of the
United Nations led by a Special Representative of the Secretary General will
also attend the IGAD ministerial meeting.
The meeting will take place in Jowhar town, which is temporary seat of the
transitional government.
Speaking in Nairobi, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General
said IGAD is more responsible than the international community in finding
solutions for problems in Somala.
The national consensus and establishment of the Somali transitional government
are outcomes of efforts exerted by the IGAD, the special representative is
quoted as saying.
The IGAD ministerial meeting is organized in accordance with the call made by
the UN Security Council to the IGAD, Arab League, European Union and other
pertinent bodies to exert efforts for the peaceful resolution of differences
among institutions of the Federal Transitional Government of Somalia.
Since the establishment of the Federal Transitional Government of Somalia in
Nairobi, various parts of the transitional government have created differences
on the seat of the transitional government.
President of the Federal Transitional Government of Somalia, Abdulahi Yousuf
Ahmed and his supporters have settled in Jowhar town, which is located 90
kilometres away from Mogadishu, while Speaker of parliament of the transitional
government, Sherif Hassen Sheik Adan led his supporters to Mogadishu.
Members of the transitional government have called up on the two parties to
come to debate and narrow their difference in a bid to make the transitional
government functional.
The IGAD ministerial meeting would be held for two consecutive days.

   

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