Somali Foreign Minister said we pressed on IGAD and agrees

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Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Federal Government of Somalia, Mohamed Abdirizack of the delegation of Somalia in Djibouti said that the pressure on the government to solve the crisis engulfing Kenya.

Speaking to the media after the IGAD summit, the minister said that IGAD leaders had put pressure on the Somali government to resolve the crisis in Kenya at the council, by calming the crisis.

“IGAD leaders have put a lot of pressure on Somalia to resolve the Kenyan issue within IGAD, through dialogue and consensus to resolve our issues there. The first step is to calm the situation and the crisis,” he said. “Somalia has agreed to that, but we have made it a condition that a commission be appointed to address the issues that Somalia is complaining about,” he said.



He noted that IGAD leaders had agreed to defuse the crisis, which is at an all-time high, since the Somali government announced it was cutting diplomatic ties, accusing it of meddling in the country’s affairs.

The minister also said they had demanded that a commission be set up to address the renewed tension along the Kenyan border, which the Nairobi government had mobilized armed militias there, and that IGAD had agreed to send a fact-finding mission. He was more lenient with the Federal Government’s firm stance on the Kenyan crisis, following pressure from IGAD leaders to file a lawsuit against Kenya.