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DJIBOUTI: INTERNATIONAL MEETING DRAWS UP PEACE PLAN FOR SOMALIA - SOMALI REPORT
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United Kingdom ; 09-Feb-2000 12:00:00 am ; 252 words
Text of report by Somaliland newspaper `Jamhuuriya' on 8th February
IGAD [Inter-Governmental Authority on Development] partner member countries responsible
for coordination of matters concerning Somalia yesterday held
a meeting in Djibouti and fully endorsed President Ismael Omar Gelleh of Djbouti's peace
proposal for Somalia. The Djibouti government, for the first
time, released the details of the proposal.
The meeting which was attended by the USA, Italy, Egypt, Ethiopia and the host country,
Djibouti, endorsed the Djibouti peace plan. Its resolutions included the following
articles:
1. A national Somali reconciliation conference will be held in Djibouti from 20th April
to 5th May 2000.
2. The conference will be attended by 1,500 delegates from various cross sections of
the Somali community.
3. The conference will elect parliamentary members whose base would be in Mogadishu.
4. The MPs will elect a president in June this year.
5. The president will then appoint a prime minister who will, in turn, form a
transitional government.
6. The parliament will approve the prime minister and the plans of his new transitional
government.
7. The transitonal government will be in office for a period not exceeding two years.
During the transition period, a national constitution will be drawn up and a national
independent election held.
The Djibouti foreign minister, Ali Abdi Farah, who was chairing the meeting, said the
Djibouti peace initiative aims at achieving a lasting solution to the 10-year-old
protracted civil war in Somalia.
Finally, representatives of the various member countries at the meeting resolved that
the implementation of the Djibouti peace plan should be started without further delay.
[Please note that, owing to technical problems at the newspaper publishing house, this
newspaper has only been appearing in Hargeisa in the evenings, not the mornings, as
hitherto].
Source: `Jamhuuriya', Hargeisa, in Somali 8 Feb 00
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