Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
January 3, 2007
Posted to the web January 3, 2007
Aweys Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu
Somalia's internal affairs minister Hussein Mohammed Farah Aideed has alleged today that his remarks that Ethiopia and Somalia should unite with one passport were distorted by the press on Wednesday.
He denied that he meant Ethiopia and Somalia should be combined as one nation. "My speech was not as people took it", he said.
Speaking at a government meeting participated by the cabinet ministers and the parliament cabinet, Aideed stated:
"When I said that the boundaries between Ethiopia and Somalia should be wiped out, I did not mean that the two countries should be combined as one country, but I meant that two nations should be more friendly and brotherly to create confidences between the two peoples", he said.
He said he did not even mean that Somalis should abandon their passport and take the Ethiopian one. "I meant both nations can have one passport as European countries do", he said.
He accused the press of writing all his terms to the opposite. "I never said Somalia must be colonized and I never will", he added.
Civil society organizations in the capital asked the international community to bring an immediate peacekeeping force to Somalia to secure the war torn country, Somalia.
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