Accra, March 3, GNA – Former President Jerry John
Rawlings has called on institutions working towards peace in
Somalia to implement recommendations agreed during the
two-day conference on Somalia in Accra. President Rawlings who is the African Union (AU) High
Representative for Somalia said the communiqu=E9 issued at the
end of the conference would be meaningless if its
recommendations were not implemented. “The communiqu=E9 tells us this conference has come up
with concrete recommendations on how to support the
Djibouti Peace Process during the remaining period of the
Transition and beyond. This is a commendable achievement
but it will mean nothing if it is not implemented, 93he added. This was contained in a statement issued from the Office
of Former President Rawlings in Accra on Thursday. Delivering the closing remarks at the conference, President
Rawlings said: 93I call on all those institutions to which these
recommendations have been made, to support the Somalia
Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP).” “The TFP will be required to take the necessary steps in
order to avoid any vacuum or create conditions, which anti-
peace elements will exploit to jeopardize the gains we have
recorded so far.” President Rawlings pledged to collaborate with all the
stakeholders to mobilise the International Community to
ensure that these recommendations were translated into
tangible dividends to maintain the momentum gained in recent
times. “I hope our prayer of thoughts and prayer of words will
now be translated into a prayer of action in Somalia”, he
added. During the conference, President Rawlings held meetings
with leading figures on the Somalia process, including Sheikh
Shariff Hassan Sheikh Aden, Speaker of the Somali Parliament
and Mr Boubacar Diarra, Special Representative of the
Chairperson of AU Commission to Somalia. The rest were; Mr Augustine Mahiga, Special
Representative of the United Nations Secretary General to
Somalia and Mr Patrick Nabiswa Koyi, Representative of the
Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).
Source: GhanaWeb
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