Hiiraan Online
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Mogadishu conference is expected to provide an opportunity for the country’s key policy makers to
exchange insights on the current political scenario in order to simply the roadmap to peace building.
Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi (Farmaajo) said that the highly anticipated June submit that
promises to bring together for the first time all the major political players in Somalia, will provide an
important platform for delegates to discuss what next for Somalia.
Speaking to national broadcaster Radio Mogadishu, the premier reiterated the importance of the high
profile meeting asking political players and civilian populations to support the initiative in order to
realize the long awaited peace and stability in Somalia.
"The June meeting will address the situation of Somalia, and it will be one that will be attended by
Somali intellectuals and professionals” Farmaajo said during the radio program. “We are asking all
Somali people to support the Mogadishu meeting”
Farmaajo hopes that the meeting will address pertinent issues concerning how to marshal peace
building for a country that has never known law and order for more than two decades now. He said
it will provide the medium through which Somalis themselves will find solutions to their homegrown
problems.
The peace meeting will be chaired and organized by the TFG, which plans to invite regional
administrations, Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa, civil society groups, traditional elders, religious groups, as well
as insurgency group Al-Shabaab.
The conference is said to be some what symbolic as it is expected to find answers for Somalia’s painful
history from within the minds and hearts of Somalis. Mogadishu has been the centre of war, but yet
Somali commentators and analyst have described the venue for the meeting as one that is acceptable to
key politicians in the country.