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Africa Horn
Somali Gov't engage talks with Somaliland administration
2012-06-21
(Sh.M.Network)- The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, has on Wednesday opened formal talks with Somaliland administration delegates inLondon, the first ever face-to-face dialogue between the two sides in two decades.

The first round of direct talks between the two sides kicked off in London on Wednesday and each has already designated a panel for the talks in London with international observers, including the hosting UK government.

Somalia's negotiating team, headed by interior and national security minister Abdisamad Mo'alin Mohamed, left on Tuesday morning from Nairobi to London to meet with the self-proclaimed Somaliland delegates led by Mohammed Abdullah Omar, a foreign minister.

This move followed a final communiqué issued during a conference on Somaliain London in February of this year called the two sides to hold formal talks.
Posted by:Fred

#4  Ah - right you are TW!
Posted by: Secret Master   2012-06-21 12:04  

#3  And yes, Somaliland and Puntland are quietly thriving even as the rump of Somalia has ridden hard to Hell in a handbasket, a fascinating experiment in the benefits of benign neglect.
Posted by: trailing wife   2012-06-21 09:21  

#2  I think the journalists mean that Somaliland is self-proclaimed, as compared to real countries recognized by the U.N., Secret Master.
Posted by: trailing wife   2012-06-21 09:12  

#1  "Self-proclaimed Somaliland delegates." Isn't Somaliland one of the only two parts of the country that's been functional for the last decade while everything else burned down?
Posted by: Secret Master   2012-06-21 00:59  

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