Somalia Vindicated By IGAD Proposed Sanctions on Eritrea, Says Minister,INTERVIEW-Somali PM says little hope of talks with insurgents

Somalia's new government has welcomed calls by neighboring countries for the United Nations to impose an air and sea blockade to prevent Al-Shabab hard line Islamic insurgents from easily getting access to weapons and fighters. Mogadishu also said it was pleased with the fact that neighboring countries constituting the Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) have called for sanctions on neighboring Eritrea for supporting Somali insurgents.
Somalia has often accused Eritrea of supporting hard line Islamic insurgents including al-Shabaab who have vowed to eventually take over the country through violence. Eritrea denies the charges as unfounded. Abdi Kadir Walayo is the spokesman for the Somali government. He told VOA that Mogadishu is grateful for the support shown by IGAD.
"The government welcomes that decision and it will help also to curtail those elements who engaged in subversive acts against the government and detrimental to the stability and the security of this country," Walayo said.He said Mogadishu feels vindicated by IGAD's call for the United Nations to impose sanctions on neighboring Eritrea for its support of hard line Islamic insurgents including al-Shabaab.
"Yes, as you are aware to the fact that the internal security minster of Somalia had weeks ago leveled these accusations to Eritrea," he said.
Walayo said Asmara has often refused to recognize the new Somali administration..more..http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2009-05-21-voa3.cfm
INTERVIEW-Somali PM says little hope of talks with insurgents
on Wednesday there was little hope of negotiating with hardline Islamist insurgents because they had no political agenda and just wanted to use the Horn of Africa nation as a safe haven.
Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke was appointed by Somalia's first Islamist president earlier this year and said in February he hoped to use dialogue to end the violence that has plagued the country for nearly two decades.
But hardline Islamist groups that Washington accuses of having links to al Qaeda, along with foreign fighters, are battling government forces in some of the fiercest clashes the anarchic country has seen for months,more..http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LK21334.htm
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