Decision on the High Level Committee, Djibouti Agreement

  • Country/entity
    Somalia
  • Region
    Africa (excl MENA)
  • Agreement name
    Decision on the High Level Committee, Djibouti Agreement
  • Date
    25 Nov 2008
  • Agreement status
    Multiparty signed/agreed
  • Interim arrangement
    Yes
  • Agreement/conflict level
    Intrastate/intrastate conflict ( Somali Civil War (1991 - ) )
  • Stage
    Framework/substantive - partial
  • Conflict nature
    Government
  • Peace process
    Somalia Peace Process
  • Parties
    Transitional Federal Government signed by Ahmed Abdisalaan Adan; Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia signed by Abdirahman A. Warsame
  • Third parties
    UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General signed by Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah; Minister of Religious Affairs and Waqf, Government of Djibouti.
  • Description
    A short framework agreement for absorbing the ARS into the TFG; discussing the possibility of creating an international court for human rights violations and establishing mechanisms of accountability.

  • Main category

    Page 2, Art. 5, • An intention by the Parties to reach out to those who are outside the process as well as members of the civil society, including women and the business community, and the Diaspora. Seventy-five additional seats in the Parliament will be reserved to that end;

Women, girls and gender

  • Participation
    Participation→Gender quotas
    Page 2, Article 5
    An intention by the Parties to reach out to those who are outside the process as well as members of the civil society, including women and the business community, and the Diaspora. Seventy-five additional seats in the Parliament will be reserved to that end;
  • Equality

    No specific mention.

  • Particular groups of women

    No specific mention.

  • International law

    No specific mention.

  • New institutions

    No specific mention.

  • Violence against women

    No specific mention.

  • Transitional justice

    No specific mention.

  • Institutional reform

    No specific mention.

  • Development

    No specific mention.

  • Implementation

    No specific mention.

  • Other

    No specific mention.

Decisions of the High Level Committee

Djibouti Agreement

25 November, 2008

Djibouti

Building on the 26 October 2008 Joint Declaration, and encouraged by the spirit of unity prevailing at the peace talks, the Transitional Federal Government and the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia requested the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-AbdalJah, to state the following on their behalf:

1. The Parties thank the Somali people for their patience and support, and commend their determination in encouraging sustainable peace.

They commit themselves to redouble their efforts towards achieving this goal on behalf of the people.

2. The Parties welcome the conclusions of the Workshop on Justice and Reconciliation including agreement to possibly establish a Commission of Inquiry and an intemational court to address violations of human rights and intemational law and impunity in their country.

A joint working group has been establislıed to follow up on the preparation of next year's conference on Justice and Reconciliation.

3. The Parties have agreed on a number of guiding principles as a framework to strengthen their commitments on political cooperation - particularly of the establishment of a Unity Govemment and an inclusive Parliament.

4. These include:

• Addressing impunity through the Unity Government;

• Establishing mechanisms that will place priority on ensuring accountability - politically, fınancially and morally - of the Unity

Government and respecting recognized intemational legal instruments.

5. They agreed on the foIIowing proposals:

I • To enlarge the Parliament by an extra 200 seats allocated to the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia;

• An intention by the Parties to reach out to those who are outside the process as well as members ofthe civil society, including women and the business community, and tbe Diaspora.

Seventy-five additional seats in the Parliament will be reserved to that end;

• That the new inclusive Parliament will have the responsibility to elect the new Leadership;

• The principle of responsible sharing of leadersh.ip positions will be adhered to;

• A two-year extension of the Transitional Period;

• All Agreements resulting from the process will be embedded as Aınendments to the Transitional Federal Charter;

• The establishment ofa working group that will engage, under the facilitation ofthe United Nations, on details ofthe Unity structures and to

submit proposals in 30 days to the next session ofthe High Level Committee.

6. The Parties reaffirm their grave concem o ver the recent acts of piracy.

The United Nations Special Representative ofthe Secretary-General for Somalia

[signature]

Ahmed Abdisalaan Adan

Transistional Federal Govemment

Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah

United Nations Special Repr sentative of the Secretary-General

Abdirahman A. Warsame

Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia

Witnessed by

Hamud A. Suldao

Minister of Religious Affairs and W AQF

Government of Djibouti