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Silanyo Meets with Somaliland Expatriates in Kuwait

April 30, 2011 · 220669 Comments2011-05-01+02%3A10%3A50Qalinle+Hussein

Somaliland expats in Kuwait host a welcome dinner for the delegation

KUWAIT CITY — President Ahmed M. Silanyo and his high-level delegation met with Somaliland expatriates residing in Kuwait during a reception thrown by the community there on Friday night.

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The President thanked the 150 or so participants for their warm host and stressed the high importance of having strategic relations between the government and Somaliland expats around the world. Mr Silanyo also accepted an award and thanked them for it. “I welcome wholeheartedly your gesture for giving me this order (achievements) that I received on behalf of my administration, country and people,” he said.

The president then briefly laid out the agenda of their trip and drew attention to the fact that Arab nations who were in the past hostile were now keen on entering a new phase of mutually beneficial cooperation and bilateral ties with Somaliland. He emphasized the importance of Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, the two countries he has been touring for the past two weeks. He said this is only the first phase and expressed the desire to establish cordiality and friendship with the Arab world.

Dr Mohamed Abdullahi Omar, the Foreign Minister, who also addressed the jubilant people spoke of his foreign policies and Somaliland’s new relations with the outside world. He pointed out that it was important for Somaliland to enter into strategic partnerships with the international community including the Arab world.

Somaliland expats in Kuwait host a welcome dinner for the delegation

Mr Abdullahi Mohamed Dahir, Presidential Spokesman, outlined the administrations performance since taking the leadership in July 2010. He said they were in office for 274 days while accusing the previous government of leaving them with a lot of mess to clean up. He insisted he was pleased with the Government’s progress in key areas.

After brief questioning, the leaders of Kuwait’s Somaliland community took their opportunity to thank the President and his delegation. They thanked them for the manner which they carried themselves, the Somaliland name and the people of Somaliland during their visit to the Gulf nations.

All in all, both sides regarded the meeting productive and important interaction. Kuwait is home to roughly 4,000 Somaliland expatriates who lived in the Kingdom for over three decades.

Somaliland is a former British protectorate that gained independence June 1960. It was formally recognized for few days as the State of Somaliland before unifying with the Trust Territory of Somalia (the former Italian Somaliland) forming what became known as the Somali Republic. However the union went sour and the Somali republic collapsed in 1991 after two decades of internationally-hidden civil war. Shortly after, Somaliland declared the restoration of its sovereignty, it has not regained international recognition.

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By Qalinle Hussein

Tags: Delegation, expats, Kuwait, Somaliland news

mohamed says:

All is well and good. Attn SLPress please correct..Quote it was formally recognized for few days as the State of Somaliland unquote. I would replace it by the following:
Somaliland is a formal British protectorate that gained Independence June 1960 fully recognized as
Sovereign state by all the member states of the UN as dealt with officially by the Colonial British
Empire of HMG. ETC. The unity with the former Italian Somalia to become known as the Somali
Republic, is absolutely an aftermath seperate issue which shouldn't be connected to the
the official Somaliland Sovereign State formal Independence mandate. This nonsenical of
after few days joined etc etc. must not spoil the real SL Independence which has nothing to do
with the Union issue.
Cheers.

10:14 pm on April 30, 2011

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- Jay says:
  
  I agree with you. We should completely erase that union from our history. I would recommend this sentence better: "Somaliland is a former British protectorate that gained Independence June 1960 however the country lost its identity for 40 years for unknown reason. In 1991 it rejoined the world stage and now plans to play a role in the region including stabilizing the war torn Somalia to its southern border".
  
  No need to put Somalia in our history.
  
  Cheers
  
  11:10 pm on April 30, 2011
  
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nasir says:

many thanks to somalilanders in Kuwait,, you shown your unity/patriotism/strength… make dua for your president to succeed accomplishing what his party promised to the public in their campaigning days.

11:16 pm on April 30, 2011

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muusabakora says:

To SLPress,

I have noticed the word "On Behave of" instead of "On behalf of" being used in articles on this website and sadly it has started to become contagious and some of the people commenting here have also started using the same word incorrectly.

Please take notice of this error and correct it before you mislead many others.

Thanks!

5:40 am on May 1, 2011

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Mohamed Yusuf says:

Everybody who taken part in the meeting has now commtied high treason.

6:20 am on May 1, 2011

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Salih says:

Jay wrote 'No need to put Somalia in our history.'

Brother, Somalia is part of our Somaliland history. We can't just erase it. That would be like marrying a woman, the marriage turns sour, divorcing her and then denying you were ever married to her. Yes, it was mistake to have entered into the union in the first place. And it wasn't all bad. We achieved a lot in the first 10-15 years. In the early seventies, Somalia had the best educated secondary level students in the whole of Africa. Sadly we were then abused and oppressed by our Somali partners, the marriage turned sour and we Somalilanders chose to escape as most brides do running away from a failed marriage. But this is our history. Like it or loathe it – we can't erase it cos of the actions of the crazy southern Somali's in power today.

8:39 am on May 1, 2011

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Abraham says:

@Mohamed and Jay
I think we can rephrase the introduction about our country in this way:
Somaliland was a great country for thousands of years who then in the 19th century felt threatened by fascist regimes wanting to invade and take away its sovereignty and as a result made a mutually beneficial agreement with the British Empire to become its protectorate for 70 years or so. After the dissolution of that agreement with the British, Somaliland decided to conducted a bold 30 year political experiment with its neighbour to the South which concluded in 1991 and from which it learned more about its identity, values, goals, strengths, and weaknesses. Now with its newly gained insight about itself and the World around it, Somaliland is rising and taking its rightful place among the democratic and prosperous group of nations.

12:36 pm on May 1, 2011

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abdiaziz says:

walahi its funny how nother somali's think just cuz they were a Britrsh protectorate that gained independence June 1960 that they are not somali's

2:38 pm on May 1, 2011

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mohamed says:

Hey watch out folks. There's no need to complicate the Somaliland stance with the Somalia stance.
Simply said Somalia has no recognition problems whereas Somaliland has recognition problems.
Why is that remains the intriguing excalamation question mark?. You folks are free to manipulate the issue in any way you so desire but I staunchly believe that the Independence mandate of the Somaliland Republic June 1960 which contained the full membership of the UN arranged and executed by HMG Great Britain should not be confused with the Somaliland Somalia union affairs. Simply put, the seperate
Independence issues and the union issues should be treated as two seperate issues. Then what
after the Union failed collapsed in 1991 because of bad Govts. and Civil wars containing destruction
and genocide mayhem which gave no alternative remedy solutions other than each State to withdraw
to her own original Independence Per se. In this regard I call on the Somaliland Govt. to take more
active role to pursue why the Somaliland is not treated on equal footing when it comes to the
dubbed issues surrounding the recognition of the Somaliland Republic. What are the legally
overridding factors obstracting the Recognition?.
Cheers.

8:50 pm on May 1, 2011

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