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Somaliland ready to resume talks with Somalia |
2012-12-20 |
[Shabelle] The self-declared republic of Somaliland in north Somalia has repeated its readiness to have talks with the Somali federal government. Speaking to the BBC Somali service from Djibouti where both the leader of Somaliland and the president of Somalia are present, the foreign minister of Somaliland Mohamed Abdullahi Omar has repeated that Somaliland is ready to restart the talks with Somalia which began under the transitional government led by Sheikh Sharif. The minister has said the time and the venue for the resumption of the talks has not been agreed yet. Somaliland, which is a region in north Somalia, has declared its as a separate republic from the rest of Somalia soon after the collapse of central government in Mogadishu 1991 but no nation in the world has recognized it yet. |
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