Mr. Yusuf, said the remarks in a news conference he held at top-hill presidential compound, Villa Somalia, in Mogadishu amid seven grenade blasts killed three civilians and wounded more than 10.
"Even if a nuclear bomb explodes in Mogadishu, the conference will happen as scheduled," he said.
The president was with the leaders of Mogadishu's major Hawiye clan, when speaking with the journalists. He said the government made clear already that it offered an amnesty to all people who used to work with the defeated Islamists.
"We have indicated that we offered an official pardon to Islamic Courts followers if they were giving up their resistance against the federal government, but this conference will not be stopped by any force," he said.
Haji Abdi Iman, the traditional leader of Hawiye, who also spoke to the press, said, "We, as Hawiye, have accepted the amnesty extended to the people who worked with the U.I.C. from the government,", urging the Somali people to support the UN backed transitional government.
Iman was among the clan leaders opposing the federal government until recently he backed out his antagonism and joined the adherents of Somalia government.
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