Somali accusations for Ethiopia
Somalia-Ethiopia, Politics, 1/15/2001

Somalia's prime minister Ali Khalaf Jalayed has accused the Ethiopian forces of occupying towns in the Southern West of Somalia and arresting and terrifying Somali forces and providing with arms opposition groups in an attempt to undermine the international efforts to re-building Somalia.

News reports said that Jalayed explained in a press conference he held on Friday in New York after briefing the UN security Council on the situation on the borders with Ethiopia that his government seeks to establish a strong administrative state that can deals with all issues and prevent foreign attacks.

Meantime, Ethiopia has denied news saying that its has been working to establish a separate state in Somalia or its forces to have had occupied towns in the southern western parts of the country.

News reports said that Ethiopia's ambassador at the UN Abdul Miguid Hussein denied the existence of any Ethiopian forces in Somalia or that the Ethiopian government wants to occupy any part of this country.

He explained: " to the contrary Ethiopia wants, more than any country else in the world, to have peace prevailed in Somalia after several years of violence."

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