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David Stephen, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia, told IRIN on Monday the establishment of the Transitional National Assembly (TNA) and election of a new president were important steps forward in the Somali peace process.
“It is a qualitative and quantitative step forward in the process of reconstructing a framework of governance, and it vindicates the faith of Djibouti President Ismael Omar Guelleh and the good sense of the Somali people,” he said. Stephen also said it belied those who say Somalis only fight. But he also said the challenges ahead were “formidable” in a country where at the humanitarian level, the infrastructure had been destroyed and whose people were mainly subsisting.
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