{"id":40190,"date":"2021-09-20T16:19:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T23:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40190"},"modified":"2021-09-20T16:19:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T23:19:12","slug":"call-for-somalias-president-and-prime-minister-to-resolve-dispute-and-complete-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40190","title":{"rendered":"Call for Somalia\u2019s President and Prime Minister to Resolve Dispute and Complete Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>09\/20\/2021 06:31 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ned Price, Department Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>Cooperation among Somalia\u2019s leaders \u2013 particularly President\u00a0Farmaajo\u00a0and Prime Minister Roble \u2013 is essential to ensure that the country quickly completes its ongoing electoral process.\u00a0 The dispute between President\u00a0Farmaajo\u00a0and Prime Minister Roble risks complicating this process and needs to be resolved immediately and peacefully.<\/p>\n<p>The United States welcomes both sides\u2019 stated commitment to the electoral process but remains concerned that these elections are already months behind schedule.\u00a0 Any further delay increases the potential for violence and plays into the hands of al-Shabaab and other extremist groups seeking to destabilize the country.<\/p>\n<p>Based on our shared interest to ensure the electoral process moves forward, we call on the President and the Prime Minister to avoid further provocative statements or actions and to resolve their disagreement over personnel appointments and their respective authorities peacefully.\u00a0 Rapidly completing the electoral process will help advance the country\u2019s counter-terrorism agenda and give the next government the opportunity to meet the needs of Somalia\u2019s people. \u202fSomalia\u2019s citizens deserve nothing less.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09\/20\/2021 06:31 PM EDT &nbsp; Ned&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40191,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40190\/revisions\/40191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}