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1. 1. DEHAI NEWS MAILING LIST ARCHIVE: [dehai-news] (UN_IRIN) SOMALIA: New parliament amidst enormous challenges

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   Published on: 10/2/2004   Last Visited: 10/2/2004

   Ahmed Awad Ashara, the spokesman of the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, whose Harti subclan of the Darod delayed to name its MPs, however, threatened to pull out of the process, accusing the IGAD Facilitation Committee of bias.

2. 2. DEHAI NEWS MAILING LIST ARCHIVE: [dehai-news] (IRIN): SOMALIA: Museveni to hold consultations ahead of leaders' retreat

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   Published on: 2/1/2004   Last Visited: 2/1/2004

   Awad Ahmad Ashara, the spokesman of the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, who is also the region's justice and religious affairs minister, told IRIN that "participation in the retreat should be limited to the 24 leaders who signed the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement [in Eldoret in October 2002] plus [Transitional National Government President] Abdiqassim Salad Hassan". He added: "Anything beyond the 25 is unacceptable."
   
   Ashara noted that some of those being invited "are people who were not in the process and have no influence on the ground and will not contribute to the process". He added that "some of those invited will only serve to exacerbate the conflict".
   
   "We are flexible, but if this [the retreat] means going back and opening up issues like the charter [interim constitution] that has been already covered, then we will not be part of it," he warned.

3. 3. VOANews.com

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   Published on: 12/29/2003   Last Visited: 12/30/2003

   The spokesman for the Somali state of Puntland, Awad Ahmed Ashara, told reporters in Nairobi that next month's planned meeting of 40 warlords and selected leaders is not only unnecessary, but will cause divisions among delegates who have been attending the year-long Somali peace talks in Kenya.
   
   Mr. Ashara, who is also Puntland State's minister of justice and religious affairs, said the invited leaders do not represent a balanced mix of the country's four major clans and civil society, which could cause some clans to feel left out. "This will create a new confrontation even, and will take back all what we have done throughout the process," he said.
   
   Mr. Ashara also calls the meeting unnecessary, since the leaders agree on basic issues. Mr. Ashara points out how more than 20 warlords signed a cease-fire agreement last year, which he calls historic.