Meeting about the security of Mogadishu organized by the interior ministry has taken place in the Somali capital Mogadishu, officials said on Monday.
The meeting was held in Nasa Hablod Hotel in Mogadishu and it was attended by clerics and clan elders.
The Somali interior minister, Sheik Abdulkadir Ali Omar, said the aim of the meeting was to listen the ideas of the different parts of the society in Mogadishu and to how the security of the capital can be restored.
“The continuing of fighting and firing mortars is not the interest of the Somali people. The government is ready to sit with the opposition and the opposition should accept in their side,” said the interior minister.
The chairman of the Somali clerics, Sheik Bashir Ahmed Salad, who attended in the meeting said the peace of the capital can only come with negotiation.
He said the demanding of foreign troops by the government and the deployment of new troops violated the edicts by the Somali clerics who had demanded the withdrawal of the foreign troops.
Mohamed Hassan Haad, the leader of Hawiye clan elders said people who want to take control of the capital are still fighting.
The security minister of the government, Omar Hashi Aden, called for the interior ministry to secure the capital.
The meeting comes two days after the Somali capital Mogadishu saw the worst shelling since the Ethiopian troops pulled out from the country.
amsomalia@mareeg.com
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