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Somaliland President meets with EU Delegation

August 10, 2010   ·   10 Comments

HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamed Mohamud ‘Silaanyo’ met with a large delegation from the European Union (EU) led by the EU representative to Somaliland and Somalia, Mr. Marc-Andre Georges.

The European Union delegation consisted of members from Sweden, Finland, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Hungary, Spain, Germany, Austria, and the UK.

During the meeting President Silaanyo and the EU delegation discussed areas of mutual interest including the security situation in the region, as well as, Somaliland’s continuing efforts against terrorism and piracy.

President Silaanyo thanked the European Union for its support of Somaliland’s progress towards to economic recovery and capacity building.

On behalf of the European Union, Mr. Georges congratulated the Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamed Mohamud “Silaanyo” on the recent free and fair elections held in Somaliland, which Mr. Georges described as an example to many nations across the globe.

Mr. Marc-Andre Georges, the European Union representative to Somaliland and Somalia, stated the EU continued support of Somaliland.

The meeting held at the Presidency in Hargeisa was attended by senior officials from the Somaliland government.

Source: Harowo | Tuesday, 10 August 2010

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  1. Abdul says:

    Those delegation are NGO's not from governments , every countries has to respect sovereignty, territorial integrity of Somalia

    9:58 am on August 11, 2010
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  2. Jiciir says:

    What territorial integrity? You mean the four blocks around Villa Somalia. Somaliland marches on and the likes of Abdul are reduced to nonsense. First of all stop killing each other, secondly see if you can have some rudementary public services, hold elections for president, parliament, municipality, collect taxes, build infrastructure, then you can talk about Somalia. The Somali Republic is defunct and has been for over 20 years, it was illegal to begin with. Somaliland has been receiving governmental delegations for decades, who all know that, so give it a rest.

    2:40 pm on August 11, 2010
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    • anoymous says:

      damn staight!

      12:16 pm on August 12, 2010
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  3. mohamed says:

    Now that there's new Govt. and new President in place for Somaliland,
    lets see if there's gonna be any new solutions to the existing conflicts
    between Somaliland and Somalia. In other words, if this large EU delegation
    to Somaliland proper has the same old strategy or the Somaliland position will
    be dealt with as a full fledgedly Independent new Sovereign State having
    the full mandate by law of a de jure state who fulfilled all the required
    qualifications conditions and terms in accordance with the internationallaws???
    Lets wait and see how things work out.Cheers.

    9:49 pm on August 14, 2010
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  4. Abdulla Hassan Ali says:

    The coming of EU delegation to Somaliland,doesn't mean they were carrying something new but they used to come there as normal routines.. The real policy of EU is to pay unfruitful visits to Somaliland, praise them for improving democratisation, peace and stability, etc but they will neither recognize us nor do they treat us as a Defacto State. Their plan is to keep us there, until, the situation of South Somalia is solved and if they succeed, our expecting question will be, let Hargeisa be the capital of Somalia and the President be from Somaliland, no more no less, if you like or not, however, this new EU plan is the reason why 11 member states of the EU had recently arrived Hargeisa so as to brief the new plan to the new President as Riyaale was already told . The bottom line is, there is no other solution for South Somalia until Somaliland is forced to partake this new plan of Somalia consolidation. Anyway, a new Somaliweyn conference will soon be held inside Somaliland in this coming year. Believe it or not.
    M.J.Musa

    5:58 am on August 16, 2010
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    • mohamed says:

      Hey Ali,
      What about the new Kulmiye Regime…do you envision that like Udub
      they will follow nothing but international instructions?
      Lets wait and see how things play out with the new Somaliland!!!
      Cheers

      6:59 am on August 16, 2010
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  5. M. Khalid says:

    As is common in African countries, Somali land needs economic assistance in the form of financial aid from the EU. The country is very poor and cannot embark on a major economic move by itself because it is not recognized internationally. What matters at present is a mixture of international aid and the reorganization and enhancement of local income.

    3:04 pm on August 16, 2010
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    • mohamed says:

      LOL@M.KhalidAm hopeful that the new SL Regime will play a different role than
      the previous Regimes in national and international arenas.Cheers.

      11:01 pm on August 18, 2010
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  6. somali-way-ogaden says:

    The Idea of Somaliland as the new capitol is one that wipes the tears away from many in Somalia, but at the same time expect some to start weeping.

    The other thing is Addis Ababa being so close to it, you have to wonder what their position on it is and understand it from there.

    10:55 pm on August 16, 2010
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    • mohamed says:

      LOL…

      Am hopeful that the new Somaliland Regime will play a different
      role than the previous Regime in the national and international areas.
      Cheers.

      11:04 pm on August 18, 2010
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