Somali Prime Minister Meets with Visiting IGAD Delegation

Mogadishu, May 17 2013 (SDN)– Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon has today met with a fact-finding delegation from Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) comprising seven-member states who arrived in Mogadishu today. The information minister of Somalia Federal Government Abdullahi Elmoge Hersi has said that the delegation held a closed door meeting with the prime minister as they discussed several issues. “The prime minister at large explained the position of the government towards Jubbaland crisis as he mentioned the way to form regional administrations through national reconciliation process.” Minister Hersi told reporters in Mogadishu today. He added that they have also met listened some comments from members if civil society and traditional elders from Jubbaland clans in Mogadishu. The minister also noted that the delegation will soon travel to Kismayo to meet with the Jubbaland government as well as traditional elders there. In its communique issued on May 3rd, The IGAD Heads of State decided to conduct a confidence-building mission to Kismayu led by the IGAD Executive Secretary and  composed of representatives  of  the  federal government of  Somalia and one  senior  delegate  from  each  member  state of IGAD with  the  aim  of  assessing  the  situation and  submitting a  report  to  the IGAD summit to be held on the  sidelines of the upcoming AU summit in May 2013.

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