Hiiraan Online
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
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Speaking to an audience of over three hundred people in Chicago, Somalia’s president Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed said that Somalia problem can be solved if the international community makes meaningful commitment to solve it and follows it through. The president said that if the international community gives serious thought to the problem and helps Somalis rebuild civil and government institutions and to bring back social and health services, the country’s 20 year civil war can be ended.
“I believe that solving Somalia’s problem is not as difficult as it looks. It only requires that we confront it with unshakable resolve” said the president. The president also said that the Somali people have endured enough suffering that the people and the government are impatient for a solution to the country’s problem.
When the president was asked why he believes his government can solve the country’s problems where former governments failed, he responded by saying that his government came as a result of national reconciliation and that his government, with the support of the international community, will do all that is possible to solve the country’s problems. He warned, however, that Somalia’s problem would not be solved without the assistance of the international community.
The president is expected to visit Ohio where a large Somali Diaspora lives. He is expected to return to Somalia after his visit to Ohio.
Somalia has been without a central government since the collapse of Siad Barre’s government in January 1991.