U.S. to Aid the newly created Somali Government After it Moves in to Somalia NAIROBI, 13 Jan 2005 (RSTV Online) US ambassador William Bellamy has said his country's aid to Somalia will depend on the new government's relocation to its motherland. It will then be upon the Somali government to lobby donors on its priorities, he said. Mr. Bellamy said the US was prepared to rally other donors to help Somalia - which has remained without a government for 14 years - when its newly-formed Cabinet shows determination to settle down to work. He said, however, that the interim government had indicated it would move home by month end, adding that his country will assist Kenya and Igad to relocate the Somali government. The envoy, who had paid a courtesy call on the minister for Regional Development Mr John Koech however said the position was different for Sudan which signed its comprehensive peace agreement on Sunday. "The US has been the only donor country which has been giving humanitarian assistance to Sudan and which will be sustained," he said. He assured that the improvement of southern Sudan's poor infrastructure will be top on the agenda of the US alongside the education and health sectors. He thanked Kenya for its contribution in resolving conflicts in the two countries, adding that the position by Kenya "had opened floodgates of opportunities to the country." Mr. Koech said he and Mr. Bellamy had discussed at length the strategies of ensuring that the peace agreements reached by factions in the two countries would be sustained. Mr. Koech, who was accompanied by his assistant minister Mr. Joseph Nyaga, said plans to have a common market for the three East African countries in the next five years was sill on course. It is expected that this will boost economic development in the three neighboring countries and in effect create more wealth.