Anyone Wanna Come with Me - To the Closing Day?

[SayidSomal]

Key Countries and Regions (WP1078)

Somalia: building stability, accepting reality

MONDAY 07 - WEDNESDAY 09 FEB 2011

LOCATION: WISTON HOUSE

Participation at this conference is by invitation only.

 

For information about this event please contact Sue Reay (below)

Contact information

 

Sue Reay

Sue Reay, Assistant to the Programme Director

T: + 44 (0) 1903 817787 F: + 44 (0) 1903 879231

E: sue.reay@wiltonpark.org.uk

[Ibtisam]

I heard Somaliland got invited and accepted to present their case about nation building after conflict.

 

 

Somaliland to attend Somalia conference for first time

7 Feb 7, 2011 - 5:19:51 PM

 

 

Officials from Somalia's unrecognized separatist republic of Somaliland will attend a conference to discuss post-transition in Somalia being held in the United Kingdom, Radio Garowe reports.

Mr. Mohamed Abdullahi Omar, Somaliland's foreign minister, flew from the regional capital Hargeisa en route to London, UK.

Mr. Omar's office issued a press statement the "international community directly invited Somaliland" to the conference being held in London.

"Somaliland was asked to share with the international community its experience in peace, nation-building and political accord," read Mr. Omar's press statement, which went on to ask the international community for "political recognition."

Located in northwestern Somalia, Somaliland unilaterally declared independence from the rest of the country in 1991 but has not been recognized internationally.

Somaliland's policy has been to avoid attending conferences where Somalia-related issues were discussed, regionally or internationally. But it is the first time Somaliland officials are attending such a major conference specifically aimed at discussions on how to manage the post-transition of the TFG, whose term expires in August, 2011.

Also attending the conference is Puntland State Minister for International Cooperation Prof. Abdulkadir Abdi Hashi and Mr. Mohamed Hassan Barre, the head of Puntland's Liaison Office in Nairobi, Kenya.

The conference comes at a time the bloated 550-seat TFG Parliament voted to extend its mandate by three years. The term-extension has been openly opposed by the U.N., the U.S., the E.U., and most recently, by the Puntland government which supports a federal Somalia.

GAROWE ONLINE

[Chimera]

Do what?

[Ibtisam]

Adam watch Somali men debate loudly not listening to each other, usual my clan is better than yours, and then few white people presentations which are the only ones they shut up long enough to listen to or respect enough to listen to. They speak all over the Somali presenters and show disregard and disrespect by chatting amongst themselves. IF all that is not bad enough, the Q&A will kill you a slow painful death or a sprint for the front door, while farah hogs the mic and says rubbish for 20mins with no question in sight.

[SayidSomal]

^Something about the title; " building stability - accepting reality" sound fishy to me - one wonders why SL accepted the invitation :confused: - given the previous policy of - "Annagu Soomaaliya shuqul kuma lihin"

[SayidSomal]

Chimera;693653 wrote:

Do what?

practice shoe throwing!

[Chimera]

Ibti, you summed up the thousand similar conferences in just one post, bravo.

 

Sayyid, accept the reality sxb.

[Ibtisam]

Sayid, I sort of know why; "building stability - accepting reality"

[SayidSomal]

Chimera - What reality?

 

Ibtisam - spill the beans - what do you know?

[Malika]

^Awaiting the outcome of the meeting - one doesnt need to be a genius to read between the line of the tittle of the meeting. Baal noo soo sheeg hadhee wax cusuub laa sheego.

[SayidSomal]

Malika see my other thread - but don't have a heart attack (like some people i know - either out of sheer happiness or shock)

[Valenteenah.]

^ Which thread is that, Sayid? The one with the crying African? That didn't make sense to me.