Speaking to the press shortly after the meeting, outgoing president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed said they discussed the completion of the selection of the remaining MPs and the election of the speaker and his two deputies as well as the president.

Mogadishu (Sunatimes) Somalia’s outgoing President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and the acting new speaker of the parliament Gen. Musse Hassan Abdille on Tuesday held talks with representatives from the international community at Mogadishu’s main airport.

During the talks, the international community representatives including officials from the EU and U.S congratulated the newly sworn in Somali parliament and promised to support the upcoming new government for the republic of Somalia.

Speaking to the press shortly after the meeting, outgoing president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed said they discussed the completion of the selection of the remaining MPs and the election of the speaker and his two deputies as well as the president.

The international community representatives promised to financially support the upcoming new government to help it end political and social-economical crisis in the country.

The UN special representative for Somalia Augustine Mahiga who spoke to Bar-kulan welcomed the inauguration of the new parliament and the elders who selected the new MPs.

Somalia’s UN-backed Transitional Federal Government’s mandate ended on Monday as stipulated in the country’s political process with the swearing in of 211 MPs -but fell short of the

United Nations hopes that the Horn of Africa nation would seat a full 275-member parliament that would vote in a new president by this date.