UN Security Council NYTimes Unmask TFG Puntland

[Che -Guevara]

^LooooooooL@Mintid...the gravity of the situation is not as bad as you want it to be. I know Uncle Sam contributes most of the money into any UN fund-the power purse gives them big leverage but they are most concerned about the South than they are anywhere else in Somalia including the north.

[Mintid Farayar]

Suldaan,

 

I think our brothers in Puntland misunderstood expansion of warehouses to mean expansion of the port.

 

But even this claim contradicts their previous argument that Bosasso rivals Berbera in capacity. I guess Google Maps with its satellite imagery is not available in their respective residences

[xiinfaniin]

This diversionary report blurs the facts of the piracy problem, and smears the reputation of Somalis. Piracy root causes are known, and realistic remedies can be devised to address them. Blaming Puntland or Somalia for that matter will not make maritime routes on that dangerous strip safe for world trade.

 

On the alleged diverted aid food by Somali contractors, again it is a false alarm when the report highlights the loss of what amounts to pocket change without pointing out huge sums of money spent in Nairobi hotels in the name of Somali aid. Somalia is a conflict zone, and contracting out food delivery and distribution with third parties is part of the cost involved in operating in the area.

[Mintid Farayar]

It seems the Puntland authorities are finally waking up to the damaging repercussions of this report. Here's the response from the semi-official website of the current administration:

PL oo codsatey in loo soo diro barayaal

11 Mar 11, 2010 - 8:40:59 PM

 

Warbixin si qarsoodi ah loo heley oo dhowaan ay daabacdey jariidada New York Times ee kasoo baxda cariga Mareykanka ayaa waxaa cambaareyn dusha uga tuurey dowladda Puntland.

 

Qoraalkaan Jariidada qortey ayaa waxaa laga soo minguuriyey warbixin guud oo hay'ada la yiraahdo UN Monitoring Group ka diyaarisay Somalia wax-na kaga sheegtey sida laga soo xigtey New York Times in "Madaxweynaha Puntland xiriir qoto dheer la leeyahay burcad badeedka ka howlgasha degaanada Puntland kuwaasoo kadib qeybo kamid ah lacagaha ay madax furashada u qataan u soo gudbiya dowladiisa."

 

Wasiirka warfaafinta Puntland Mud.Cabdixakiim ayaa ku tilmaamey eedeeyntaan mid aan sal iyo raad toona laheyn islamarkaana ah mid lagu ceebeynayo madaxweynaha iyo shacabka Puntland una baahan in la cadeeyo.

 

Mud.Cabdixakiin oo saakey la hadley laanta Af-Somaliga ee BBC ayaa sheegey in dowladda Puntland weli helin nuqul kamid ah warbixintaan balse tilmaamey iney gacan ka gaysteen diyaarinta warbixintaan canaasiir caadeysatey cambaareynta Puntland kuwaas oo ku dhuumanaya magaca hay'adaha QM.

 

Qoraalkaan jawaabta ah ee kasoo baxey dowladda Puntland oo ahaa mid adag ayaa lagu sheegey in maamulkoodu dagaal kula jiro sidii loo ciribtiri lahaa burcad badeedka iyo dhamaan dadka qafaasha shisheeyaha iyadoo wax tageero ah aan laga helin beesha caalamka.

 

Dhinaca kale qoraalka kasoo baxey Xukuumadda ayaa lagu sheegey in Puntland ku faani karto ololaha dhinaca wacyi galinta ah kaasoo hoos u dhigey howlaha burcad badeedka kana dhigey wax ceeb ah oo maanta dhlinyaradu ka xishooto in la sheego.

 

Dowladda Puntland ayaa dagaalka ay kula jirto burcad badeedka ku markhaati gashatey ururada ka howlaga xeebaha Somalia sida Nato oo kaashaneysa EURONAFOR, wamadamada Mareykanka, Fransiiska, Spain iyo Ingriiska gaar ahaan saxaafada caalamka oo booqasho joogta ah ku timaada degaanadeeda.

 

 

Warsaxfedeekaan kasoo baxey Puntland ayaa Wasiirka Warfaafinta ku codsadey in baarayaal caalami ah oo madax banaan loo soo diro Puntland kuwaasoo xaqiijinaya ineysa wax ka jirin beenta ay dhoodhoobeen IMG.

 

Mr.Cabdixakim ayaa sheegey in kooxda la sheegey in warbixntaan diyaarisay wax booqasho ah ku imaan Puntland islamarkaana aysan la soo xiriirin Xukuumadiisa isaga oo waxba kama jiraan ku tilmaamey in New York Times waydo cid ay kala hadasho Xukuumada si ay jawaab uga bixiso qoraalka IMG.

 

Ugu dambeyntii Warsaxafadeedkan ayaa lagaga codsadey QM in talaabo laga qaado shaqsiyadka qora warbixinadan aan salka laheyn islamarkana loo ogolaan in magaca hay'adaan wakiilka ka ah shacab weynaha caalamka si khaldan loo isticmaalo awoodaheeda.

 

AKHRI: Warsaxdeefdka Puntland [English]

 

GAROWE ONLINE

Link

[Mintid Farayar]

And for those who are not literate in Somali, here's the English version of the Puntland press release:

 

 

Somalia: Puntland Government Continues Anti-Piracy Campaign, Rejects Monitoring Group Accusations

11 Mar 11, 2010 - 5:58:32 AM

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Ministry of Information, Communication, Culture and Heritage Government of Puntland

Tel : +252 90 794315/ +252 90 397794

E-mail : info@puntland-gov.net Web: www.Puntland-Gov.net

 

Reference is made to a New York Times article (“Somalia Food Aid Bypasses Needy, UN Study Finds”) published on 9 March 2010, whereby the renowned U.S.-based newspaper cited a still-secret report drafted by the U.N. Monitoring Group regarding a number of issues in Somalia.

 

According to the Times article, the U.N. report alleges that the President of Puntland had “extensive ties to pirates in the area, who then funneled some of the money they made from hijacking ships to authorities’’.

 

The above is a huge nonsensical accusation; a feeble attempt to defame the president that requires to be proven.

 

The Government of Puntland has not received a copy of this U.N. report yet, but the Government’s position on piracy has remained consistently clear since the election of the current government.

 

To highlight our commitment to combat and eradicate the scourge of piracy, the President of Puntland H.E. Abdirahman M. Farole declared a campaign against all forms of piracy throughout Puntland territory. The President underscored this state policy in a U.S. Congressional hearing in June 2009.

 

The incumbent Puntland Government has arrested a large number of pirates; so far, 154 have been convicted and are serving long sentences in correctional facilities across Puntland, while 50 more are waiting for trial. Furthermore, Puntland police units continuously raid suspected pirate hideouts in major towns often leading to more arrests and the confiscation of weapons, ladders and communications gear used by pirate gangs.

 

The incumbent administration ensures the coverage of the above-mentioned anti-piracy efforts in both local and international media; the last such coverage was as recent as the 9 th day of March 2010.

 

The Government also sponsors a social campaign designed to discredit piracy and the proceeds of the loot of the pirates also forbidden by Islamic law. Puntland’s Islamic scholars and community activists are leading this social campaign to prove that pirates have brought nothing except cultural, social and religious degradation to the Somali society.

 

These efforts to combat pirate gangs on land have yielded success. Puntland can proudly claim that the culture of piracy is universally rejected throughout Puntland and that caused many of the pirates to move away from Puntland territory.

 

Our anti-piracy partnerships cooperation with NATO alliance (EURONAVFOR) is well known among leading nations such us USA, France, Spain and Britain, as well as the international media. Therefore, we strongly condemn the piracy activity, not only in Somalia but also all over the world. At the same time, we strongly condemn this baseless allegation, which is a politically motivated slander and defamation of Puntland and its leadership. We believe that these derogatory remarks are made by certain elements in the IMG who have accustomed to do these shameful allegations in other organizations in the past but now have infiltrated this UN mission (International Monitoring Group).

 

We finally request that the President of the Security Council, in the event that the accusations contained in the leaked report is authentic, to send a fact finding mission to conduct an independent and thorough investigation of these unprecedented accusations.

 

We demand that the Security Council hold the authors of these fallacious accusations accountable for their actions. We expect from the international body (UN) not to tolerate impunity within their own organizations.

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[Mintid Farayar]

Originally posted by Che -Guevara:

^LooooooooL@Mintid...the gravity of the situation is not as bad as you want it to be.

Obviously, the Puntland Authorities do not agree with Che and find the gravity of the situation quite serious....

 

Here's the BBC interview with the Puntland Information Minister defending his administration against the accusation:

BBC Interview

[Khayr]

The report says that Somali officials use their connections to foreign governments to get visas and travel documents for people who would not otherwise be able to travel abroad and that many of these people then disappear into Europe and do not come back. “Somali ministers, members of parliament, diplomats and ‘freelance brokers’ have transformed access to foreign visas into a growth industry, matched possibly only by piracy, selling visas for $10-15,000 each,” the report said.

So when Sh. Hotel announced the opneiong of a somali embassy in the U.K., what we was really saying was 'I am opening up a Business' .

[Peace Action]

Mintid,

According to you, the situation is grave for Faroole and Puntland, so what do you think the consequence will be and don't be clouded by clan rivalery?

[Mintid Farayar]

Originally posted by Peace Action:

Mintid,

According to you, the situation is grave for Faroole and Puntland, so what do you think the consequence will be and don't be clouded by clan rivalery?

Peace Action,

 

Clan rivalry? I beg to disagree. What I believe in (Somaliland) is actually a multi-clan experiment.

 

Having said that, the report will have little short term effects since the West has planned a containment policy for the whole Somali peninsula. Frankly, they don't really care about us (the Somalis) as long as we don't destabilize their bigger anchors in the region such as Ethiopia and Kenya.

 

However, Puntland under Faroole has gotten serious about the search for external development assistance for the region, independent of power in Mogadishu. This is where this report can prove dangerous to Puntland's ambitions. Rightly or wrongly, Puntland has become too closely associated with the problem of piracy affecting significant global trade in the region.

 

It's one thing to have rumors swirling around of the connection between Puntland authorities and the Pirates in Somali 'mafrishes' but another to have an official Security Council report stating this!

 

This has contributed to the inability of Faroole to receive Western developmental assistance in the past year or so.

[Peace Action]

Mintid,

I agree with that there will be little short negative effects for Somalia and I will add there will be no long term effects as well. There has been little development assistance from westrern countries to Somalia except for some NGO initiaves. Therefor this too will have no effect.

 

The business of oil exploration will continue because of the need for new oil discoveries and high risk taking oil exploration companies determination to prospect for oil. In conclusion, contrary to your grave consequence, the priority of the Int;l community will be to stablize Somalia as whole with an effective national government. This will lead to the elimination of the piracy problem with much less cost rather the navies of the world contiuning to patrol off the coast of Somalia with little success against piracy.

[Mintid Farayar]

I'm hurt

 

I don't even get a thank you from my Puntland brothers for the 'week and a half' advance notice of the coming report from the Security Council investigating committee.

 

Abaal la'an....

[GaroweGal]

Laa!!! Of course my adeer Faroole does business with them Pirates, aniga baa intas idin shegi kare LOL

 

 

The UN needs to sort its own shyt out :rolleyes:

 

Piracy is a legitimate income source. :cool: