NAIROBI, March 20 (AFP) - One influential Somali faction leader rejected Monday a proposed reconciliation conference, saying a peace initiative led by Djibouti President Ismael Omar Guelleh was "unrealistic".

"It would be impossible for my people to attend a conference with factions that occupy part of our ancestral land," said Hassan Mohamed Nur Shatigudud, the leader of the Rahanwein Resistance Army (RRA), which controls the south-central Bay and Bakol regions.

"Djibouti misunderstood the problem of Somalia," Shatigudud told AFP by telephone from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

The Djibouti conference, planned for next month, is intended to discuss Guelleh's proposal to end nine years of civil war in Somalia.

Guelleh's plan calls for the holding of a national reconciliation conference and the establishment of a transitional government with an acting president, prime minister and a parliament.

It has already been approved of the UN Security Council, the East African Intergovernmental Authority on Development, the Organisation of African Unity and the Arab League.

Shatigudud said the RRA favoured tribal-based "building blocks" and not "Guelleh's premature plan that can not resolve the anarchy in Somalia".

"The planned conference in Djibouti is unrealistic and a waste of time and political effort," said Shatigudud.

Shatigudud said that a conference of 60 members of the Digil Mirifle clans, also known at the Rahanwein, endorsed the rejection of Geulleh's proposal in Addis Ababa on Monday.

"The most fertile part of our land is occupied by militiamen of Hussein Mohamed Aidid.

We might join credible peace efforts when we recapture our land," he added.

He said that Somalia needed a genuine solution and not an "ambiguous conference" which, he said, would bring no positive result.

About a dozen past Somali reconciliation conferences failed mainly because of factional wrangling and multiplication of foreign-led peace efforts.