Hiiraan Online
Friday, May 27, 2011
Speaking to national broadcaster Radio Mogadishu on Wednesday shortly after attending a high profile UN submit that was held at Kenya’s capital Nairobi, president Sharif said, resolutions after the meeting opened a window of opportunity in order to foster unity and agreement between different institution of the Somali government.
The Somali president who warmly welcomed the U.N. statement about resolving internal political bickering by Somali leaders said that delegates were satisfied with the proposal of holding a consultative meeting among Somalis in Mogadishu from June 12 to 16, describing it as an opportunity for Somali leaders to resolve their differences by themselves.
“The Nairobi meeting was about the situation in Somalia. The recommendations of the meeting will be concluded at another meeting planned in Mogadishu in June” President Sharif said
For the past few months, there has been a heated stand off between president Sharif and speaker Hassan concerning the extension of the term of the interim government. A number of meetings to iron out the difference between the two failed to result any material solution.
The UN meeting was intended to sort out pertinent issues about which the president and speaker failed to agree, until the end of the submit there was no any indication on whether the two men who have been holding the country at ransom have agreed to reach a common ground.
After meeting with Somali government leaders, the regional administrations of Puntland, Gal-mudug and the breakaway republic of Somaliland, the United Nations Security Council demanded an immediate end to the internal political bickering in the transitional federal government.
The Security Council members warned that the government of Somalia will lose international financial support if the internal wrangle between President Sheikh and parliament speaker Hassan does not end.
"First thing is that they [Somali political leaders] should stop infighting and unilateral extension of the transitional mandate. Second, they should focus on the key transitional tasks,” Mark Lyall Grant, the British ambassador to the UN said during a press conference after attending the meeting.