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Press release

 

By the voice of its president - Mr. Mahamoud Idriss Ahmed - the Gouvernement in Exile of Djibouti raises a sharp protest as for the recent accusations carried in the press by Mr. Ismaël Omar Guelleh concerning the responsibilities in the failures with the talks for setting-up for a lasting Peace to Somalia.

 

Following the statements, made in the regional press, about the Somalia problem, we refute and condemn with strength the contents of the statements made by Mr. Ismaël Omar Guelleh which carries seriously reached and indirectly blames the probity of the States of Ethiopia, of Kenya as that of the people of Somaliland with which the Djibouti populations have deeply anchored ancestral relations, of fraternity even family.

Such accusing remarks and without base held contribute of nothing - in any moment or in some manner that it is - to bring constructive proposals for the resolution of the Somalia problem.

Conversely, they constitute today an affront and an open provocation with regard to all the wills clearly expressed in particular by all the other partners of Djibouti taking part in the Technical Committee of the IGAD and which was opposed - in calms and with serenity necessary - to the attempts at concretization of the obvious hegemonic aimings of Mr. Ismaël Omar Guelleh on areas of Somaliland and which maintains - by heads of clans minority and interposed mercenaries - conflicts larval on the unit the territory Somalia.

 

In name of Djibouti populations , political opposition and the whole of the members of the Government in Exile of Djibouti, I address to the Heads of States, Prime Minister and to the populations of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somaliland the testimony of our support and our confidence as for the wills that they express very clearly for the introduction of a lasting Peace in Somalia.

 

In name of Djibouti populations
and political opposition,
for the Government in Exile of Djibouti,

Mr. Mahamoud Idriss Ahmed.
President of the Government in Exile.