NAIROBI, Aug. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- The inauguration of Somalia's proposed transitional government has again been postponed by two weeks because some clans had not completed the process of nomination, regional ministers said here on Friday.
The inauguration of an all-inclusive government has now been tentatively scheduled for Aug. 19, according to a joint statement issued at the end of the two-day 9th IGAD Ministerial FacilitationCommittee meeting in Nairobi.
Foreign ministers of member states of the regional Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), which is mediating Somalia's peace talks, have postponed twice the inauguration of the government for the strife-torn country, having missed the July30 and Aug. 4 deadlines.
Delegates representing Somalia's various clans and sub-clans have been trying to form the Somali Transitional Federal Assembly for several weeks, in order to pave the way for the formation of an all-inclusive government.
The process has, however, been fraught with disagreements on how to share the seats and intra-clan wrangling over individuals to be appointed MPs.
Foreign ministers of IGAD member states, under whose auspices the peace talks are being held, urged the remaining clans who havenot submitted their lists of MPs to do so.
Sources said the process of allocating seats and naming the MPshad been particularly contentious for two clans -- the Darod and the Dir.
Each of Somalia's four major clans was allocated 61 seats in the proposed 275-member parliament, while an alliance of minority clans would have 31 MPs.
A speaker and two deputy speakers to be elected from among the parliamentarians will preside over the election of the president, who will in turn appoint a prime minister mandated to form a government.
Somalia has been without an effective government since 1991 when the regime of Muhammad Siad Barre was toppled and the countryplunged into anarchy and violence.
IGAD groups Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda.
The IGAD-sponsored Somali National Reconciliation Conference began in October 2002 in the western Kenyan town of Eldoret, and was moved to Nairobi in February 2003.
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