Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
19 June 2008
The chairman of alliance for Reliberation of Somalia sheikh Shaif Sheikh Ahmed has met with United States Ambassador to Somalia John Yates in Kenyan Capital Nairobi on Wednesday officials said.
Sources close to the meeting told Shabelle English service that Sheikh Sharif was accompanied by that meeting With Yates Sherif Hassan Sheikh Aden the chairman of Central committee of ARS group as the two sides concentrated on the their meeting on the subject of cessation of hostility, preventing the violation the truce deal between jointly signed by Somali government and the opposition.
Sheikh Sharif has appealed United States government to deliver humanitarian assistance to thousands of internally displaced people.
The US ambassador on his side has stated that they as US would prop up the outcome of the peace talks signed in Djibouti by the government and the opposition saying that they would give hand the withdrawal of the Ethiopian troops from Somalia.
Else where the Alliance for Re-liberation of Somalia [ARS] has said that Ethiopian troops will withdraw from the country at the stipulated time given and that they would not extend their presence in Somalia.
Speaking to Radio Shabelle radio by phone from in Nairobi, Abdirahman Haji Adan Ibbi deputy chairman of the ARS said the Ethiopian troops will withdraw from the country at the given period of 120 days.
Ibbi said if UN forces were not deployed within that period, than the Ethiopian troops would leave the country just the way they entered at first, that is by the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia [TFG] requesting them to leave the country.
He said there are meeting going on in Nairobi to strengthen the agreement reached by the TFG and ARS in Djibouti recently.
Ibbi's statement comes as fighting continues in some parts of Mogadishu between Ethiopian and TFG forces on one side and opposition forces fighting against the presence of Ethiopian troops in Somalia and the TFG's policies.
The TFG had said the continued attacks and fighting would not affect the peace agreement signed in Djibouti.
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