Aideed and two other groups in his Somali National Alliance had stubbornly opposed the signing of an agreement on a reconciliation conference with smaller factions they deemed insignificant. It was only after a night meeting with Meles, during which he helped aided and his intertwined Col. “We know he understands our Somali problem.” The agreement provides for a National Transitional Council, a federality that is supposed to be Somalia`s supreme authority until a national government is formed within two years, Mawlawi said. No timetable has been set and UN officials said they could only confirm the meeting of a ceasefire committee in Mogadishu, Somalia, at the end of this week. Disarmament comes first Then the agreement was ready to be signed last Wednesday when the two most powerful group leaders refused to sign. .