IGAD demands the formation of a Somali government before the month end
Somalia, Politics, 7/17/2004

The Government Commission for Development IGAD recommended yesterday the Somali representatives in the peace talks in Nairobi to form a government before the end of the current month.

The ministers, representatives for IGAD's member states which includes Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Eritrea, Sudan, Uganda and Somalia demanded in a joint statement the representative to " completely honor " their obligation to form an administration in Somalia before the end of the current month July.

The ministers who announced they will be meeting in Nairobi on July 30 said that the Somalis " bear the first responsibility to reaching their own peace agreement." Representatives for the Somali groups signed by the end of January an agreement to form a new parliament and a government and to elect a president.

Somalia -- which has lost its pivotal government since the collapse of Muhammad Seyad Berri regime under the strikes of the united Somali conference in January 1991 -- is living today under the control of the rival war lords.

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