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Somalia: Islamist Leader Rebuffs Djibouti Talks' Outcome
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Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
10 June 2008
Posted to the web 10 June 2008
A senior leader in the reliberation of Somalia group sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys has described the peace agreements jointly signed by Somali government and the opposition leaders.
Speaking to Shabelle radio by phone from Eritrean capital Asmara Mr.Dahir says he believed that Djibouti talks ended with futile.
" previously there were no delegates representing the ARS to Djibouti, we saw no developments from those so called peace talks, the jihad will carry on " Aweys said" we will not recognize what they said that they've achieved"
He added that the decisions on the withdrawal of the Ethiopian troops from Somalia in indistinct.
"We will be in no way to support them, the Islamic struggle is our main ambition" He said.
He lastly informed to the Somali people not to support the outcome of the peace talk's agreement.
"Somali people want wide-ranging conformity, two gathered persons cannot accomplish solution" he angrily said.
Aweys's remarks came following Somali government and members of ARS members (the main opposition group) have jointly signed cessation of the hostility peace agreement and decision describing definite time that the Ethiopian troops will be withdrawn from Somalia.
Somalia's interim government and some opposition figures signed a peace deal on Monday that called for the rapid deployment of a robust United Nations force.
It was the latest in a series of such agreements. Opposition members in exile and insurgents in Somalia had dismissed the United Nations-led talks here in Djibouti, so it was unclear what effect it might have on the ground.
An aide to the United Nations envoy for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, said the two sides had agreed to end all acts of armed confrontation for an initial period of 90 days.
The main opposition demand has been that Ethiopian soldiers helping the government fight Islamist rebels leave Somalia. The aide said that Monday's deal planned for Ethiopian forces to leave within 120 days, but that their withdrawal was conditional on "sufficient" United Nations troops' being deployed.
Fighting between the guerrillas and allied Somali-Ethiopian troops killed at least 28 people over the weekend in the city.
A contingent of 2,200 African peacekeepers has made little headway in stemming the conflict, and the United Nations is reluctant to intervene until security improves.
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The violence in Somalia has set off a crisis that aid workers say may be the worst in Africa, with at least a million refugees in a nation torn by constant civil conflict since the 1991 toppling of a military dictator by warlords.
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