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Somalia: Somlai parliament applauds Djibouti peace deal Thu. July 17, 2008 08:18 am.- By Bonny Apunyu. - (SomaliNet) The speaker of Somalia’s transitional parliament said the Somali transitional parliament has broadly welcomed the peace agreement reached last month in Djibouti between the Somali transitional government and a major faction in the opposition. The Somlai lawmakers listened to a briefing about the Djibouti Agreement from government ministers including the Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Abdisalam who led the Somali government delegation to the UN mediated peace talks in Djibouti early last June. "The parliament is pleased and welcomes the outcome of the peace talks and we hope the agreement would be formally endorsed after it is officially signed in Saudi Arabia sometime this month," Parliament Speaker Sheik Aden Madoobe told Xinhua by phone from the southern town of Baidoa, the seat of the Somali parliament. The agreement brings hope for the people of Somalia and will usher a new era in Somalia's future as a stable country, Madoobe said. In early June, the Somali transitional government and a main faction of the opposition coalition the Alliance for the Reliberation of Somalia (ARS), led by its Chairman Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, signed peace deal. A number of factions within the Somali opposition boycotted the talks in Djibouti and rejected the agreement. A faction of the ARSled by the hard-line Islamist leader Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys and another led by ARS Chairman Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed split over the participation of the talks. The agreement was due to be formally signed in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, early this month but was postponed to the end of July. The Djibouti agreement stipulated that a ceasefire should come into effect throughout Somalia 30 days after its signing but the near daily violence in the war-torn Horn of African nation continues unabated. Under the agreement the Ethiopian troops in Somalia who crossed into the country in late 2006 to help Somali government forces oust an Islamist administration in south and central Somalia, would withdraw within 120 days after the deployment of a" sufficient number" of UN stabilization forces.-Xinhua News Category: Somalia Latest Headlines Latest News Puntland: Mayor criticizes Puntland’s top leaders o... Somalia: Islamists kill well-known clan militia com... Somalia: Roadside bomb wounds 2 Burundian forces, 3... Somalia: Deadly clashes hit Mogadishu as Islamist I... Puntland: President Muse sacks deputy police chief<... Somalia: Abducted Canadian journalist has 15 days ... Somalia: 14 people killed in south Somalia <... Somalia: Set up Mogadishu admin according to consti... Somali pirates holding arms-laden Ukrainian tanker ... Somalia: Burundian troops arrive in Mogadishu More News...