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Warloard Hussein Aideed Calls for Another Conference !

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Friday, October 06, 2000 - 04:11 pm
Aidid says he is ready for dialogue with new Somalia leader

A Prominent Somali faction leader, Mr Hussein Mohammed Aidid has said he is ready to enter into dialogue with new Somalia President, Mr Abdulkassim Salat Hassan.

Aidid further said that he is prepared to sign a reconciliation pact with the new leader of the troubled war-torn nation.

“We are in the process of entering a peaceful dialogue with Salat,” said Aidid in an interview with the East African Standard in Nairobi at the Wilson Airport before he left for Mogadishu on Wednesday.

Aidid disclosed that he met Salat on September 24 in Libya and held talks which were brokered by Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

He said they jointly agreed for the convening of another national reconciliation conference inside Somalia, but without any leader claiming the presidency.

However, the warlord said his Somali National Alliance (SNA) will resist any attempts by the new president's regime to forcibly introduce unilateral administration in Somalia.

“We will not accept a one-sided government. We will fight to achieve good things for all the people of Somalia, but not to for one group,” said Aidid. He was accompanied by SNA secretary-general Mr Abdulkarim Ali and his Nairobi-based spokesman, Mr Abdulatif Afdub.

Aidid arrived in the country on Thursday last week and has since met President Moi and a number of diplomats. “Recognising Salat is a formula for renewed civil strife in Somalia and heightened insecurity in the Horn of Africa region,” claimed the south Mogadishu warlord.

He said the international community should not recognise Salat “if renewed bloodshed is to be averted in Somalia.” The international community will be responsible for the consequences, he added.

He appealed to the UN Security Council not to allow the release of non-humanitarian funds to Salat, fearing that the money could be used for military confrontations. He also urged Italy and German not to support the new Mogadishu “action police”.

Aidid said he had heard that UN officials responsible for Somalia were demanding that funds allocated to the last government and frozen after the eruption of the civil war in 1991, be released to assist the new president's administration.

“We advise UN not to make another historic mistake in Somalia,” warned the warlord, in reference to the failed 1992-95 UN intervention under the US-led UN Operation Somalia (UNOSOM).

On recent efforts by Salat to establish a police force for Somalia, Aidid said: “This is a serious security threat that will be opposed by my faction and factions allied to me.”

He said Salat should face the realities and join other faction leaders in Somalia in his capacity as leader of the Arta group “and stop claiming to be the President of Somalia.”

Aidid charged that the parliament that was founded outside Somalia was full of fundamentalists and cronies of former dictator, the late Mohammed Siad Barre.

He said they cannot govern Somalia.

“We rejected Barre because of his dictatorship in Somalia and we cannot therefore recognise his last interior minister as president,” Aidid said in reference to Salat, who was immediate interior minister in Barre’s regime.

He also accused neighbouring Djibouti of attempting to establish a central bank of Somalia on its soil to serve the interests of Salat and a few Djibouti businessmen.

“We advise the leader of Djibouti not to interfere in the financial activities of Somalia in order to benefit a few individuals,” he added.

Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh initiated and hosted a Somali conference that elected Salat and his transitional parliament last August.

The conference attended by some 2,000 people kicked off at the Djibouti resort of Arta on May 2 and ended with the appointment of Salat on August 25.

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Anonymous

Friday, October 06, 2000 - 04:17 pm
what is aideed proposing?a coffee meet,a free amunitions venue,and a little chat?That is like saying let clinton visit sadam husein and bury behind the grudges.imagine the sceniro's that would follow.Any suggestions?

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jibriil.

Friday, October 06, 2000 - 09:23 pm
If people don't like you, it is wise to dissappear. These warlords have no connection to society so they should get in touch with reality and leave the somalis alone.

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MAD MAC

Friday, October 06, 2000 - 11:45 pm
What would this be, reconcillaitation conference 35 or something? There have been more conferences that superbowls. A government has finally been established that the people generally accept and the world is starting to recognize. Aideed needs to either get with the program or someone needs to arrange for his brains to be scrambled with a bullet.

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