KHARTOUM, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Somalia's interim government and the country's powerful rival Islamist administration said on Monday they had agreed in principle to create joint military forces, a step towards creating stability in the anarchic country.

Details of how this would be done would be agreed by the two sides after a political solution was reached.

Late on the third day of talks, the fragile interim government and representatives of a Mogadishu-based Islamist movement agreed to reconvene on October 30 for power-sharing talks on political and security issues.

The two sides in Arab-League-mediated talks agreed: "To build armed forces like an army and police including forces from the Islamic courts, the government and other militias in the country," the text of the agreement said.

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