Former Somali TNG president Abdikasim lashes out Ethiopia over its involvement in Somalia

Aweys Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu 14, Sep. 06
( Sh.M.Network) - In an interview with former Somali TNG government president by London seated Asharqalawsat Arabic newspaper, Abdikasim Salad Hassan stressed that if Ethiopia pulls its military personnel out of Somalia and entirely stays out of the Somali affairs, it may conduce to political progress and peaceful co-habitation in the region.
Dr. Abdikasim Salad Hassan who was among the entourage of Somalia’s Union of Islamic Courts supreme leader invited by Libya’s Kadafi said that he and the Islamic delegation went to Libya in an attempt to soothe the tense situation in the country which, as he said, is being stirred by foreign powers.
Union of Islamic Courts delegation has, on their way back to Somalia, passed by neighboring Djibouti, a country that relentlessly took major role in installing the former TNG government which was encumbered by former defeated faction warlords.
Abdikasim reiterated that no foreign intervention could resolve the situation in Somalia, adding a similar foreign military operation failed back in 1993, referring to UN-US mission that deserted Somalia in 1995 after they got humiliated and embroiled in inter-tribal war.
“Ethiopia had been entering in Somalia for the last 16 years in the country’s racial war; disintegrating Somalis, hindering every administration built for Somalia and it’s a government still determined to obstruct any Somali government that does not abide by its unlawful policies”, said former president Abdikasim.
He complimented the Islamic Courts for restoring some law and order in the capital once a volatile city.
Abdikasim said the preliminary peace accord reached by the Islamic Courts and the Somali transitional government in their second phase had a phenomenon of a good future for Somalia, inciting all neighboring countries including Ethiopia not to infringe the sovereignty of Somalia.
The President’s remarks came at a time when Iter-Governmental Authority on Development, IGAD, had come to their decision in Addis Ababa Ethiopia of deploying about 8,000 African peacekeepers in Somalia.
Somalia’s Islamic Courts pledged they would confront any foreign forces brought to Somalia.

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