New York, September 7, 2011
New York, September 7, 2011
UN News Center
The Transitional Federal Government (TFG) is called upon to lead the implementation, working with the Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP), regional entities, and all sectors of society, including women, the business community, religious leaders, elders and youth.
Early last month Al-Shabaab insurgents withdrew from Mogadishu under pressure from the 6,200-strong UN-backed African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), a move that provided what Mr. Ban’s Special Representative for Somalia, Augustine Mahiga, called an “extraordinary moment” of opportunity for progress in a country that had not had a functioning national government since Muhammad Siad Barre’s regime collapsed in 1991.
Mr. Ban also welcomed the signing of the ceasefire accord between the Puntland and Galmudug administrations, two of Somalia’s semi-autonomous regions that had clashed over a border dispute last week.
Mr. Mahiga noted earlier this week that Puntland and Galmudug are “on Somalia’s front lines in the ongoing fight against violent extremists that increasingly are relying on terror tactics to try and disrupt the peace process.”