On the Agenda: De Facto States in Brussels

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

hadhwanaag 2009-05-07 (Hadhwanaagnews) Thursday, 07 May 2009

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)

 

Abkhazia and Somaliland have given an audience of diplomats and politicians in the European Parliament, Brussels, an update on the current security situation in the Caucasus and Horn of Africa regions.

The European Parliament has once again played host to representatives of the Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of Somaliland. In a timely update to the new threats posed by piracy and continuing tensions in the Caucasus, representatives spoke of the need to assist de facto states in bringing security to the people living in their respective regions of the world.

 

Organised by UNPO and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) the conference represented a continuation of an initiative begun in May 2008 with the conference ‘Opening the World Order to de facto States’.

 

Opening the meeting, Senator Marco Perduca, alongside moderator Professor Kristin Bakke of Leiden University, spoke of the situation in which de facto states currently found themselves and of the need to ensure the international community engaged meaningfully with their authorities.

 

Continuing the opening remarks, Mr. Mohamoud Daar, Somaliland Representative to the European Union (EU), spoke of Somaliland’s importance as a regional beacon for democratic, economic, and social development. But the failure of the international community to extend recognition of Somaliland’s independence had left the country in “limbo” and “besieged…by hostile forces in the region”.

 

Taking up the point, Mr. Eidarus Adan, Somaliland Representative to Sweden, noted that “training with EU-military is important, patrolling together is also necessary in order to secure the Red Sea from piracy”. Mr. Adan stressed that Somaliland had prevented piracy from taking root in its territory but that cooperation with the EU had to be the next step in combating what was increasingly a regional threat.

 

Mr. Adan also dwelt on issue of Somaliland’s delayed elections, clarifying for the audience the background to the current situation. Highlighting the steps being taken to ensure adherence to the revised election timetable, Mr. Adan assured those present that ”Somaliland people have chosen their way and they will not go back to anarchy and civil war”.

 

With similar sentiment, Mr. Zeki Kap provided those assembled with an Abkhazian perspective to the events of August 2008, detailing what the consequences Georgian and Russian military engagement had spelt for the region, and highlighting the partial recognition Abkhazia had won as an independent state while Tbilisi slipped into an increasingly desperate political crisis. Meanwhile Senator Marco Cappato denounced the lack of responsibility of the international community regarding the current situation of de facto states.

 

The General Secretary of the UNPO, Marino Busdachin, concluded:

 

Questions undoubtedly remain about what the future will hold for the world’s de facto states, but participants clearly hope that this latest event has helped to raise the level of understanding and debate in Europe’s decision-making heart.

 

 

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

BaarLamaanka Midawga Yurub Oo Lagaga Dooday Qadiyada Madax Banaanida Wadamada Somaliland Iyo Abkhazia.

 

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wakiilka somaliland ee swedan oo doodaas ka qayab galay

 

 

Hargeysa-(HWN)-" BaarlamaankaMmidawga Yurub ayaa lagaga dooday qadiyada wadamada buuxiyey shuruudihii qaranimo balse aan beesha caalamka aqoonsi ka haysan iyada oo si gaar ahna loo soo qaatay dalalka Somaliland iyo abkhazia oo ah dal yar oo ku yaala bariga yurub doodan baar lamaanka midawga yurub ka yesheen Somaliland iyo Abkhazia oo si wada jir usoo qaban qabiyeen uruka ay ku bahoobeen wadamada aan dunida aqoonsiga ka haysan ee lo soo gaabiyo UNPO iyo is bahaysiga xoriyada iyo dimuqraadiyad doonka urub ee lo soo gaabiyo ALDE.

Waxaa dhinaca somaliland uga qayab galay wakiilkeeda uqaabilsan baar lamaanka Yurub Mr.Maxamuud Dacar iyo wakiilka s/land u fadhiya dalka sweden Mr.Caydaruus aadan ku waas oo xubnaha baar lamaanka uga xog waramaya mar xalada siyasadeed ee wakhtigan ka jira s/land iyo duruufaha ku xeeran oo ay ugu muhiim santahay budhcad badeeda iyo dhibaatooyinka kale ee ka jira wadamada geeska afrika doodan oo daba socotay shir arintan la xidhiidha oo bishii may ee sannadkii 2008 uu baar lamaan ka midawga yurub ka yesheen qadiyada wadamada aan beesha caalamka ka haysan ictiraafka waxaa ugu horeyn hadalka u furay mudane lagu magacaabo Marco Parduca iyo Prof Kristin Bakke oo wax ka dhiga Jaamacada Leiden kuwaas oo ku dheeraday marxaladaha ka jira wadamada buuxiyey Shuruudaha dalnimo ee aan aqoonsiga haysan iyo sida loogu baahan yahay in besha caalamka si buuxda oo micna weym xambaarsan xidhiidh wax ku ool ah ula yeelan lahayeen maamulada wadamada ictiraaf u baahan iyada oo lagaga qaadayo godoominta siyasadeed iyo dhaqaale oo saamayen qalaf san ku yelatay bulshooyinka ku dhaqana dalalka ictiraaf radiska ah

 

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Hadhwanaagnews Reporter

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