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| Africa Horn | |
| Iran warns against meddling in Somalia | |
| 2009-04-24 | |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] The Iranian foreign minister says the meddling of different countries in Somalia is intensifying the 19-year-old-crisis in the African state. Addressing an international donors' conference for Somalia in Brussels, Manouchehr Mottaki said that an internal political reconciliation is the key to establishing stability in the Horn of Africa nation. "It is a must (the) establishment of dialogue encouraging all the groups who are not in the government, with the government, to pay attention to their views and encouraging them to join to this new move for stability in Somalia," Reuters quoted Mottaki as saying on Thursday. "Poverty, domestic war and injustice paved the way for insecurity and instability in Somalia," Mottaki said. The Iranian foreign minister said that Tehran is ready to help establish peace and security in the unstable state.
Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed also vowed to make every effort to stabilize the country and fight piracy. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Send in the Revolutionary Guards ... Likely they're already there. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-04-24 14:37 |