Somalia - a Transition to a Transition

opinion

On July 2-3, the International Contact Group (I.C.G.) held the last large international meeting on Somalia before August 20, 2012, when that country is supposed to have completed a transition to a new government to replace the current Transitional Federal Government (T.F.G.) that has been in place since 2004.

The I.C.G. is the forum and policy-guidance group for the international actors that have interests in Somalia and have been willing to back those interests up through expending financial, diplomatic and human resources. Initiated by the United States in 2006, during the Islamic Courts revolution, the I.C.G. first included Western powers, with the token African representation of Tanzania. Over the ensuing years, the I.C.G. has expanded to take in East African and Horn of Africa states, and their regional organizations; Middle Eastern Arab states, and their organizations; and China and South Korea. In that process of expansion, the U.S. turned over the chairmanship of the group to the United Nations special representative of the secretary-general for Somalia (S.R.S.G.).

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