Ban Ki-Moon on Somalia and Darfur, EU envoy on aid to Somalia

Ban Ki-Moon on Somalia and Darfur, EU envoy on aid to Somalia

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(30 Jan 2007) SHOTLIST
1. Zoom into Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Abdullahi Yusuf, Somali President:
"Well, we would like to negotiate with all Somalis who would like peace. But who will make violence and terrorism, we cannot negotiate with them. Anyone who wants peace is our citizen and we are ready to cooperate...."
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Louis Michel, EU Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid:
"We will back the capacity of the government, the technical capacity, we will also develop programmes in the services, health, education and all this. We are also committed to help with security, training and all this."
4. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon arriving for news conference
5. Cutaway media
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General:
"In Somalia, as I said all year, we are very much concerned and our priority will be in helping the Somali government and people to stabilise their political and social security there."
7. Cutaway media
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General:
"Of course the top priority was and will be on the Darfur crisis. I have discussed in depth this matter, as I said I have proposed this second-phase plan already a few days ago to President (Omar al-)Bashir, this process is moving. The process is moving and political process is also moving and peace keeping process is moving. Therefore I can tell you that while the progress may be slow, that we are moving on two tracks, one political process track as well as a peace keeping track."
9. Ban Ki-moon leaving
STORYLINE
Somalia's president on Tuesday agreed to a national reconciliation conference to try to end 16 years of anarchy in the war-ravaged country, paving the way for the deployment of African peacekeepers.
After intense pressure from the US, the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) for all-inclusive political talks, President Abdullahi Yusuf said his government was willing to negotiate despite stiff opposition from within his own administration.
"Well, we would like to negotiate with all Somalis who would like peace," he told reporters on the sidelines of an African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa attended by 35 African leaders.
Speaking to journalists at the AU summit, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said the talks must include moderate leaders from the routed Islamic movement that had threatened to take control of Somalia and had confined the interim government to one farming town.
Ban Ki-moon said the priority of the United Nations would remain to help "the Somali government and people to stabilise their political and social security there."
He described the peacekeeping process as "moving."
"I can tell you that while the progress may be slow, that we are moving on two tracks, one political process track as well as a peace keeping track," Ban said.
The Somali President's agreement to national reconciliation was a key component to securing financial and logistical support from the US and EU to help in the deployment of an eight-thousand-strong African Union peacekeeping force.
At stake is 15 (m) million Euros (20 million US dollars) from the EU for a peacekeeping force and 40 (m) million US dollars from the United States.
African governments also want reconciliation talks before they begin deploying troops.
Yusuf's government need the peacekeepers to help maintain order as Ethiopia, who help prop up his government, begin withdrawing their troops after defeating the rival Islamic movement.
So far only three nations - Uganda, Nigeria and Malawi - have pledged troops.

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