MOGADISHU (Mareeg) – Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, the opposition leader of the Asmara based Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia said late on Sunday he would not meet Somali president Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed , and vowed to continue fighting against the AU troops and the government.
“I will not meet Sheik Sharif because he wants the International Community and we are against the International community,” said Mr. Aweys after he held meeting in Mogadishu with clan elders in the capital on Sunday afternoon.
President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed had said he would welcome negotiations with Aweys, his former partner in the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), which ruled the capital and most of southern Somalia until Ethiopian troops ousted them in 2007.
He called upon the various Islamist groups to fight what he called their common enemy.
The spokesman of Hawiye Clan Elders Ahmed Derie Ali said they tried to persuade Sheik Aweys to stop the fighting and support the peace reconciliation but he rejected.
He added that they would continue to tell Sheik Aweys to support the peace.
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