Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
3 December 2008
Baidoa — Somali Prime Minister, Nor Adde Hassan Hussein, has arrived in Baidoa on Wendesday to seek approval for his cabinet from the Parliament, our correspondent in Baidoa reported.
The prime minister from Nairobi, Kenyan Capital arrived at Aden Adde international airport in Mogadishu early on Wednesday and then flew to Baidoa, the seat of the transitional parliament.
The Somali Prime Minister Nor Adde held a press conference in Baidoa. He explained the modalities of the peace agreement singed in Djibouti, between the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia and the transitional federal government.
He urged all the parliamentarians to support the peace deal.
He also explained that he was going to ask the legislators to approve his new cabinet, despite the Somali president Abdullahi Yusuf had rejected to approve it.
The prime minister had a closed doors meeting with Ethiopian officials and the speaker of the parliament in Biadoa.
President Abdullahi Yusuf and Prime Minister Nor Adde Hassan Hussein have disagreed over the composition of a new government.
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