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	Somali 'president' answers your questions
		Mr Hassan's task is to find a way to impose a civilian authority on a country where all the institutions of the state have been destroyed and where the gun remains the only real measure of power.
		Abdulkassim Salat Hassan: Democracy and Islam are not contradictory.
		Abdulkassim Salat Hassan: The regions of the north and north east, and these people are represented by this parliament.
	www.somaliawatch.org /archivejuly/000915101.htm (1050 words)

	New Somali president wants militias disarmed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Salat, who was sworn in on Sunday, pledged loyalty to the Somali nation, describing himself as the president of all Somalis, including those who did not approve his nomination.
		Salat, whose government is expected to rely on support from Islamic courts active in the south, pledged: "My government is the government for the poor, women and the weak.
		Salat, 58, is a former deputy prime minster and interior minster in the Siad Barre regime
	www.arlaadinet.com /News/August/new_somali_president_wants_milit.htm (386 words)

	Forum's Response to the Annan Report
		Hassan after realizing that he was committed to reestablishing the Barre regime, and that he was not interested in the federalist question or in the settlement of the land question.
		Hassan also participated in the summit meeting of the League of Arab States, held at Cairo on 21 and 22 October, and the summit conference of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, held at Doha from 12 to 14 November 2000.
		Hassan being engaged in “the peace process” and the other parties as being outside “the peace process.” For one thing, Somaliland is one of the most peaceful areas in all of Africa and is not at war with anyone.
	www.somalilandforum.com /slf/press_release/forum_response_annan2000.htm (6629 words)

	Newly-elected Somali president facing resistance from warlords (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Abdulkassim Salat Hassan, 58, was sworn in on Sunday in Arta in one of the key stages of a Djibouti-sponsored peace and reconciliation plan, which begun with the inauguration of the transitional parliament earlier this month.
		Salat's supporters should not act as though they were members of a government.
		Salat has the backing of unarmed civil society groups and the influencial Islamic courts active in south Mogadishu and parts of southern Somalia.
	www.arlaadinet.com /News/August/newly.htm (632 words)

	Shia News \| Africa \| Somalia president sworn in (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Somalia's newly-elected President Abdulkassim Salat Hassan promised to "serve all the Somali people" as he was sworn in Sunday to lead the deeply-divided country, Djibouti television said.
		Salat, 58, a former interior minister under the late dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, was elected early Saturday by a transitional parliament sitting in the resort town of Arta, some 20 miles outside Djibouti.
		Salat, who between 1973 and 1990 was successively minister of industry, trade, labor, information and the interior, is now expected to name a new government.
	www.shianews.com /low/africa/news_id/0000011.php (379 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Somali president's ally shot dead in Mogadishu
		Yusuf Talan was killed at Kilometre 4 Junction in south Mogadishu, the fiefdom of warlord Hussein Mohamed Aidid, one of the most vocal critics of the Djibouti-led reconcilation process that led to the formation of a transitional parliament and the nomination of a president and prime minister.
		Salat is trying to establishing a central administration in the anarchic Horn of Africa country, which has lacked a government and has been riven by factional warfare since Barre fled in 1991.
		On his return to the Somali capital at the weekend, Salat declared that the age of the warlord was over.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/5b9ffc0fbb2bb401c125697d003d831e (540 words)

	News Round-up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Several warlords are opposed to the transitional government of President Abdulkassim Salat Hassan and the 245-member assembly, which was elected in neighbouring Djibouti in August.
		Somalia President Abdulkassim Salat Hassan, on a goodwill visit to Ethiopia, has informed Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of his government's desire to work with Ethiopia "for a new common future" in the horn of Africa, according to the foreign minister of Somalia, Ismail Mahmoud Hurre.
		Hassan and his party arrived in Addis Ababa Wednesday night and are expected to leave Saturday for Yemen.
	www.somaliawatch.org /archiveoct00/001121107.htm (2557 words)

	Delegates: PM 'null and void'
		"Salat is utterly mistaken in thinking that he can stay on as president forever by attempting to extend the expired mandate of the TNG and disregarding the charter on whose basis he was elected," the statement charged.
		The delegates were responding to the nomination by Salat on Monday of Mohamed Abdi Yusuf as the new TNG prime minister.
		Salat had accused Farah, who was the TNG's chief negotiator during the Kenya talks, of signing the accord without the authority of the government.
	www.news24.com /News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1457125,00.html (403 words)

	OGADEN ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Salat, who heads a Transitional National Government (TNG) unrecognised beyond much of the capital, said that the third and last phase of the talks under way in Kenya would soon see the election of a parliament that would appoint a president.
		Salat's remarks were referring to five Somali warlords who have left the peace talks in Nairobi and vowed last week to start a third phase of the talks inside Somalia.
		Salat accused Ethiopia and an unnamed country of "lying about the existence of terrorist cells in Somalia to extort money from countries that are committed to fight international terrorism and to undermine the ongoing peace process in Kenya."
	www.ogaden.com /Horn_Mar_18_04.htm (1387 words)

	Somalia: Somali MP arrested in Somaliland. /BBC 04.09.2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At the weekend, the new president of Somalia, Abdulkassim Salat Hassan, appealed for massive aid to rebuild his country after a decade without central government.
		Mr Hassan, who was elected last month, is on an international tour to try to garner support for what he has called "new Somalia".
		President Hassan described what was happening to Somalia as little short of a miracle - a state reborn after 10 years off the political map.
	www.asyl.net /Magazin/Docs/docs-15/L-24-26/L8851som.htm (339 words)

	Kenya bans Somalia flights
		But Somali President Abdulkassim Salat Hassan denied there was any such threat and called on Kenya to reopen its airspace.
		Somalia's President Salat urged Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki "to open the airspace for the well-being of the two nations, and if the idea is to fight international terrorism, the (Somali) Transitional National Government would spearhead that war," Salat said during a visit to Nairobi.
		Salat urged his compatriots to assist Kenya on security issues and pledged his administration's commitment to work closely with Kenya.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-11-1447_1377093,00.html (525 words)

	[Islam-Online- Top News]
		In a third round of voting here by the transitional parliament, formed after negotiations sponsored by neighboring Djibouti, 145 deputies voted for Salat Hassan against 92 for Abdullah Ahmed Addow, a former ambassador to the United States.
		Salat Hassan, 58, from the Hawiye clan, faces the tough task of ending the anarchy that has reigned in Somalia since 1991.
		From 1973 to 1990, Salat Hassan was successively minister of industry, trade, labor, information and the interior.
	www.islamonline.net /iol-English/dowalia/news-2000-August-27/topnews5.asp (534 words)

	SOMALIA / PRESIDENT
		Salat president last month, but four warlords have called Mr.
		He says he wants to assure the world leaders who are gathering at the United Nations this week that his government is open to opposition parties and that he hopes to have general elections in three-years.
		President Salat says it is his hope that Somalia will prove to be a model for other turbulent areas in east Africa.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2000/09/war-000904-somalia.htm (468 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Peace evades Somalia a year after founding of interim govt
		Factional violence and leadership feuds, the scourge of Mogadishu since the toppling in 1991 of the regime of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, are now beginning to rear their heads in the relatively peaceful self-declared autonomous regions of Somaliland and Puntland.
		Salat's Transitional National Government (TNG) was set up with the approval of the international community following talks hosted by Djibouti last year.
		Some ministers and deputies in Salat's TNG originally hailed from Somaliland, which declared itself independent in May 1991, and Puntland, which became an autonomous administration in August 1998, and have been calling for change in their homelands.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/b4435e833c4e0e6ac1256abc004a8a3a?OpenDocument (689 words)

	Middle East Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Most recently, a major conference in Djibouti led to the appointment in 2000 of Abdulkassim Salat Hassan as president of an administration that failed to exert its authority much beyond a few pockets of Mogadishu.
		Salat bowed out of Sunday's race after scoring miserably in the first round, and pledged to back the eventual winner.
		Before voting began all candidates signed a solemn declaration vowing to acknowledge the vote's outcome and to hand over all firearms and ammunition to the government, the fourth of its kind to be set up outside Somalia by peace conferences since 1991.
	195.224.230.11 /english/?id=11530 (661 words)

	SOMALI PRESIDENT IN ETHIOPIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Although not formally recognised by Ethiopia, President Abdulkassim Salat Hassan and three of his ministers were invited for talks by the Ethiopian authorities.
		Ethiopia has been relatively silent since August, when Mr Hassan was elected at the Arta conference, sitting on the fence and adopting a 'wait and see' policy.
		Although Ethiopian officials have been coy to express their attitudes towards President Hassan, he has been accused from some quarters of being an Islamic fundamentalist, and of supporting rebel movements like Al-Ittihad, an Islamic guerrilla movement operating in the south of Ethiopia.
	www.ogaden.com /SOMALI_ETHIOPIA.htm (405 words)

	Somali Clan Battle
		Hassan Barrise: According to independent sources from Jowhar 90 km from Mogadishu, nearly 100 heavily armed militiamen from the Gaalje'l clan have attacked the Daif village which is mainly inhabited by the Hawadle clan.
		There was no indication that the unrest was linked to the recent election of Abdulkassim Salat Hassan as Somalia's first president since 1991.
		Mr Hassan and 245 members of parliament were elected after a three months peace conference held in neighbouring Djibouti.
	www.somaliawatch.org /archivejuly/000906101.htm (960 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Somalia's new civilian leader
		Abdulkassim Salat Hassan is Somalia's first civilian president since the overthrow of the central government nearly 10 years ago.
		After the collapse of the Somali Government in 1991, Mr Hassan opted to leave the country and lived in Cairo.
		Some observers believe Mr Hassan has more of a chance of success than the 12 previous attempts to restore central government, as he is a member of the Hawiye clan, which dominates Mogadishu.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/africa/newsid_901000/901494.stm (554 words)

	Abdiqasim Salad Hassan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He has been president since 27 August 2000 and was previously a minister in Siad Barre 's regime.
		Prime Minister Hassan Abshir Farah accused the President of trying to make the talksfail to extend his time in office, resulting in Farah's dimissal.
		However, Hassan has pledged to step aside to make way for aconstitutionally elected leader.
	www.therfcc.org /abdiqasim-salad-hassan-199455.html (141 words)

	globalinfo.org - Oct 11, SOMALIA (#32789)
		Other candidates who were defeated or pulled out included Abdulkassim Salat Hassan, president of a transitional government for Somalia that was set up in 2000, in Djibouti.
		By the time parliamentary speaker Shariff Hassan Sheikh Aden was ready to announce the name of Somalia's president late Sunday night, the Kasarani complex was filled to capacity with a 4,000-strong crowd.
		Khaleef Hassan, a political commentator, told IPS Sunday that a truth and reconciliation commission should also be set up to investigate human rights abuses in Somalia during the past years of lawlessness.
	www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=32789 (998 words)

	ipedia.com: Abdulkassim Salat Hassan Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Abdulkassim Salat Hassan is the de jure president of the internationally recognised government of Somalia, the Transitional National Government.
		Prime Minister Hassan Abshir Farah accused the President of trying to make the talks fail to extend his time in office, resulting in Farah's dimissal.
		However, Hassan has pledged to step aside to make way for a constitutionally elected leader.
	www.ipedia.com /abdulkassim_salat_hassan.html (201 words)

	Hassan Barise, Somali journalists strike
		By Hassan Barise, BBC News, Wednesday 2 October 2002, 13:00 GMT 14:00 UK Mogadishu—; Somali journalists went on strike on Wednesday in protest against a new media bill.
		The legislation is intended by the transitional government of President Abdulkassim Salat Hassan to reorganise and regulate the media.
		Freedom of speech and of the press have often been under fire in Somalia but the outbreak of civil war 12 years ago led to the development in Mogadishu of greater freedom of the press and of broadcasting.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/33/132.html (474 words)

	Middle East Online
		Among the 28 candidates is Abdulkassim Salat Hassan, who was elected president of the anarchic country's Transitional National Government in 2000 by a previous legislature, but who never managed to exert authority far beyond a few pockets of the battle-scarred capital, Mogadishu.
		Sunday's election is the culmination of two difficult years of talks in Kenya, which differed from their predecessors in that they included most of the warlords who battled for control of various parts of Somalia since Barre's fall.
		As well as Salat (Hawiye), they are Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (Darod), the current president of Puntland, a semi-autonomous state in the northeast; and former finance minister Abdullahi Mohamud Addow (Hawiye).
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=11517 (624 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICAN \| Somalia: A new president for a new beginning?
		Maybe Abdul Kasim Salat is not the ultimate solution for Somalia, but he sure is the best chance the country has had in the past 10 years.
		It is moving to learn the letter from the 15 year old correspondent, Abdirizak Dirir, and realise that our young generations still maintain their umbilical chord to the motherland and are even more patriotic than their forefathers, notwithstanding the fact that they grew up in foreign countries.
		After years of destruction and doom, a new Somalia is rising from the ashes and it would be built on better and sounder foundations given the bitter experience from the past.
	newsvote.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/talking_point/debates/african/newsid_901000/901253.stm (2465 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Somali president appeals for peace
		The interim Somali president, Abdulkassim Salat Hassan, says the process of national reconciliation must be widened to bring in all those not included so far.
		He was speaking after four days of peace talks between the transitional government and its opponents ended with a call for power-sharing based on all Somali clans, for national disarmament and for the renunciation of violence.
		Mr Salat Hassan acknowledged that some faction leaders had not taken part, but he said they were bound to reach agreement with the transitional administration because the overwhelming majority of Somali people wanted peace.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1640000/1640245.stm (155 words)

	Riverineland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Abdulkassim Salat Hassan answers your questions in a live forum from New York on Friday at 1300 GMT / 1400 BST.13/09/00 13:30:22 GMT
		Abdiquassam Salad Hassan took to the podium on Friday at the largest gathering of world leaders in history, ending Somalia's status as an international outcast.
		Hassan on Saturday began interviewing militiamen interested in serving in a new 4,000-strong police force for the country's capital.
	www.riverineland.com /indexseptember2000.htm (1635 words)

	AllPuntland News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Somalia's new parliament speaker, 58-year-old businessman Shariff Hassan Sheik Adan, is known in Somalia for his commitment to reconciliation and his relief aid work.
		The father of 22 children is a relative newcomer to politics, joining the regional government of Bay in the south of country, where he was born, four years ago.
		It collapsed after a year and he went on to become an MP in the transitional national government of President Abdulkassim Salat Hassan.
	www.allpuntland.com /news1/eng/news_item.asp?NewsID=1267 (302 words)

	Three of six second-round runners quit Somali presidential race (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		First to drop out was a former Somali transitional leader, Abdulkassim Salat Hassan, followed by former finance minister Abdulraman Jamma Barre and warlord Mohammed Hussein Ado.
		That is democracy," Salat, who won just 15 votes in the first round, told the packed stadium, prompting applause from the assembly.
		Salat's administration never managed to exert authority beyond a few pockets of the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=30306 (415 words)

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