The international Olympic committee president Dr Jacque rogue and IOC’s NOC relations department head Pere Miro jointly vowed to help construct headquarters for the Somali NOC during a meeting with Somali NOC president Duran Ahmed Farah and Somali state minister for sport Abdullahi Sheik Ali Qaloocow alongside the 18th ANOCA meeting and the 2nd World Olympic Sport Convention which ended in Moscow on Tuesday.

New Somali NOC president Duran Ahmed Farah said in a press statement that the world sport showed solidarity with Somalia adding that the world sport meeting observed a minute of silence in remembrance of the former Somali NOC president Aden Hajji Yeberow and former Somali FA president Said Mahmoud Nur who died in Mogadishu suicide blast on April 4.

He said that the pictures of the late Somali sporting leaders were also presented during the meetings by the world sporting organizations. “The world of sport showed commitment to helping Somalia’s sport promotion” the Somali NOC president said in a statement over night on Tuesday.

“ANOC president Sheikh Ahmed Bin Fahad Al-Sabah also vowed a huge assistance for Somali NOC and he invited us to Kuwait to talk about more on Somali NOC’s current needs and how his country can in particularly assist Somalia–we will visit Kuwait as soon as possible” Mr. Duran added in his statement.

He noted that the Somali delegation also held a lengthy meeting with Chinese minister for sport Lui Ping as both sides discussed on possible Chinese government assistance for Somali sport.

“We asked the Chinese minister that his government rebuild Mogadishu Sports Village which was built by China for Somalia in 1970s and he told us to deliver documents carrying our needs to them and then China will help reconstruct the sports village” the Somali NOC presidential statement said.

“Another historic meeting was that we had with Turkish minister for sport whose government is giving the biggest ever humanitarian assistance to the needy Somali people and he pledged that his government will help the reconstruction of the destroyed sports facilities across the country and more other development aid for Somalia” the Somali NOC chief said in his press statement.

“Amid sadness over the deaths of our friends, Somali NOC and its member federations are committed to promoting sport in the lawless country where the NOC protected sport from destruction for the past 21 years of unrest in the country” the new Somali NOC president’s statement added.

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