Somali Lower House Speaker, Mohamed Abdirahman Mursal is scheduled to travel to Baidoa on Wednesday, sources confirmed.
An inter-state conference has been ongoing for the last two day in attendance of five regional leaders from Galmudug, Jubbaland, Puntland, Hirshabelle and Southwest states.
The speaker and his delegation are expected to reach Baidoa, the administrative capital of Southwest state in the forthcoming hours.
According to unconfirmed reports, Mursal will officially conclude three-day conference for Council of Inter-state Cooperation.
The meeting which kicked off on Monday has focused on political developments, security and resources sharing between the Federal Government and member states as well as the diplomatic raw between Somalia and the United Arab Emirates.
The Speaker will hold talks with the regional leaders on wide range issues including the outcome of the conference, the relations between federal government and states.
The trip of the speaker will be the first one outside Somali capital, Mogadishu since he assumed the office early this month.
Mursal was elected as the speaker of the Lower House Parliament last month after his predecessor; Mohamed Osman Jawari resigned following a fall out with the members of the House.
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