The Arta conference’s assembly had to be padded with street recruits at its close

Evidence

In the event, when the conference finally closed on 13 August 2000 – with those present appointing an interim national assembly and a President to appoint a transitional national government (T.N.G.) to organize elections within three years – to get the numbers back up to strength, the Djibouti President, who had masterminded the whole proceedings, was forced hurriedly to muster a few ‘assemblymen’ from the streets of the town. Other sources claim that these were carefully selected placemen (including the principal sugar importer to Mogadishu), to safeguard the Djibouti President’s business interests. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 677

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Arta 2000 conference produced its assembly partly through staged, unrepresentative enrollment; The UN endorsed the Arta government before determining its popular legitimacy; The Arta conference replicated Siyad’s centralized government and excluded existing regional states — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 678 (+1 more)

Related

• The Arta 2000 conference produced its assembly partly through staged, unrepresentative enrollment (similarity 0.92)
• Self-appointed delegates undermined the claimed grassroots basis of the Arta conference (similarity 0.86)
• The UN endorsed the Arta government before determining its popular legitimacy (similarity 0.84)
• The Arta conference replicated Siyad’s centralized government and excluded existing regional states (similarity 0.82)
• The 2000 Arta conference originated as a Djibouti-sponsored IGAD-led peace plan (similarity 0.79)