Mohammed Posted May 11, 2011 Not Somaliland (hargeisa) but Somalia (Mogadishu) if Somalia can get rid of Al Shabaab and force them out of Mogadishu. New British embassies are to be opened in El Salvador, Turkmenistan, Madagascar, Somalia and Southern Sudan as part of a radical redrawing of Britain's international diplomatic map. The Foreign Secretary will use the first anniversary of the Coalition Government today to outline what he termed "the biggest strategic diplomatic advance by Britain in decades". He revealed details yesterday to a meeting in London of hundreds of British ambassadors and high commissioners, who were told of major changes to their network of embassies and consulates abroad. The new strategy, announced in the Commons today, will be partly funded by projected cuts of £100m from running costs and another £40m from the budget for Foreign Office and British Council programmes. The initiative will include additional staff being sent to the emerging powers as well as the "Arab Spring" states of the Middle East and opening embassies in Africa, central Asia and Latin America. Consulates will be shut in France, Germany, Spain and Italy. Foreign Office sources insisted consular services in those countries can be provided by embassies and trade offices would operate from business centres. Further savings are expected from Afghanistan – with the handover of security to the Karzai government starting in July, the numbers of staff can be scaled back. Among the locations for new embassies, El Salvador has been chosen for its relatively healthy economy and "friendliness" towards Britain; Turkmenistan has its mineral wealth and a strategic position in a volatile region; and Southern Sudan recently seceded from Khartoum. The UK will also establish a presence in Madagascar, which is on a democratic path, possesses untapped natural resources and a growing tourist industry; and Somalia, which has become a violent centre of Islamist insurgency. Plans to open an embassy in Mogadishu depend on security improving. Missions in the Middle East and north Africa, such as Tunisia, will have enlarged missions. The embassy in Tripoli will be enlarged if and when Muammar Gaddafi departs. Britain has a team of 20 diplomatic and military personnel in Benghazi, where the opposition administration is based, and this, too, is expected to be augmented. The overthrow of dictatorships in some Arab states and the emergence of pro-democratic movements has opened up political and commercial opportunities. Around 50 additional staff will be sent to China and 30 to India. The Foreign Secretary is expected to tell MPs that it is essential for the UK to keep bolstering relations with the two countries and there will be a focus on dialogue relating to trade, terrorist threats and the environment. Mr Hague told diplomats yesterday: "We want to promote the long-term interests of Britain as well as to make the right decisions about immediate challenges, and we want to extend and strengthen Britain's influence overseas... By 2015 we must aim to be a Foreign Office that is lean and efficient but configured to match the realities of the 21st century." Senior diplomats who attended yesterday's meeting broadly agreed that cutbacks in some areas were inevitable if the Government wanted to carry out a diplomatic drive in economically straitened times. However, one senior official warned: "We are told that a lot of this is based on being in place to plug into the geopolitical landscape of the future. But what has happened, especially in the Arab world, shows it is extremely difficult to predict what can happen in the short term let alone the long term. We are seeing very much a shifting scene." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/foreign-office-makes-diplomatic-push-with-string-of-new-embassies-2282112.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thankful Posted May 11, 2011 Masha'Allah this is great news!!! It's ineresting that it is the British that are opening embassy, when secessionists are always bragging about being colonialized by them! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mad_Mullah Posted May 12, 2011 loool, ofcourse why not, IF SHABAB leaves the war will be over, won't it? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Zack Posted May 12, 2011 ^ I know right. What a condition! If Alshabaab leaves kulahaa. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Freedom Posted May 12, 2011 ^^^ You lots are always funny lol, anything that you see is against Somaliland you jump on it like crackhead on crack lol. The fact is regardless if Uk opens an Embassy in Somalia, they support somaliland and will make sure Somalia does not cause problems for us. But for now Somalia burns and Somaliland shines. Cheers lol Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mohammed Posted May 12, 2011 Freedom;718554 wrote: ^^^ You lots are always funny lol, anything that you see is against Somaliland you jump on it like crackhead on crack lol. The fact is regardless if Uk opens an Embassy in Somalia, they support somaliland and will make sure Somalia does not cause problems for us. But for now Somalia burns and Somaliland shines. Cheers lol Wow and you seem glad that your fellow Somalis down south are suffering. Are you getting some kick or enjoyment out of it? It's not a game you know. I don't want Somaliland to separate and become a country of its own, Yet I don't wish any bad or ill towards it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thankful Posted May 12, 2011 It's interesting how the other secessionist cheerleaders avoid this thread! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Zack Posted May 12, 2011 Thankful;718599 wrote: It's interesting how the other secessionist cheerleaders avoid this thread! are they scared to death? I heard secessionists are afraid of the name of Somalia lol. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jacaylbaro Posted May 12, 2011 and Somalia, which has become a violent centre of Islamist insurgency. Plans to open an embassy in Mogadishu depend on security improving. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Liqaye Posted May 12, 2011 Things change, and the security situation in Mogadishu will continue to improve, but one thing wont ever change no one, and I repeat no one is going to recognize qabilistan in the north for nothing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xaaji Xunjuf Posted May 12, 2011 Xita hada safaraad Koonfurianska loo fuaryo wa hadii , Somaliland inay sheekadooda ku darsadan ma dayaan;) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Liqaye Posted May 12, 2011 Somaliland is not on the picture. Everything as always is dependent on Mogadishu the capital of Somalia, gacanlibax iyo dumbuluq calan ingriis laga tagayoo ma jirto!! Xaaji oo ka tagaa mooyane Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xaaji Xunjuf Posted May 12, 2011 Liqaye;718666 wrote: Somaliland is not on the picture. Everything as always is dependent on Mogadishu the capital of Somalia, gacanlibax iyo dumbuluq calan ingriis laga tagayoo ma jirto!! Xaaji oo ka tagaa mooyane read the topic opener statement all he talks is Somaliland , Mogadisho is no longer the capital of Somalia it's the capital of the Amisom forces your TFG officials use Nairobi as their capital;) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Liqaye Posted May 12, 2011 That is your opinion and as a qabilist/ colonialist of fellow somali/ as well as a secessionist your opinion is worth less to Somalia or Foreigners than that of an elderly camel herder in the afar depression, by very definition, misee you had not understood that yet? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
