Lifting Somalia’s Arms Embargo and a Renewed Political Conflict

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

oba hiloowlow;922824 wrote:

:D

Abwaan baad la qayisha deee, Abwaan ooo taangiyo raadinaya baa ku heley

[Mintid Farayar]

Abwaan;924286 wrote:

I found some interesting threads about what SOLers said regarding foreign intervention and lifting the arms embargo against Somalia in 2012 and all the way back to 2006....check what xiin, Oodweyne and Naxar Nugaaleed said.

 

 

02/14/2012

 

 

Originally Posted by Oodweyne

 

 

Abwaan,

 

Don't bet the house on it, my friend. For this "Arms embargo" will stay in it's place (if the Brits have anything to do with it) till, Somalis political destiny is finally settled. Which means, so long as the issue of Somalia and Somaliland is in the air, then,

UK, will quietly be making sure that no government in Mogadishu will be armed in a manner that could even come close to what late Gen. Afweyne have had in his day.

 

Consequently, if Somalis of Somalia, want to see their country armed, like their neighbors, such as Kenya and Ethiopia, then, I fear, they will have settle the political argument with Somaliand. Particularly, as to where to go from here onward. Or else, let just say the Ethiopians and Kenyans and their western-equipped armies will be the closest that Somalia will have for a proper well-equipped army of it's own, indeed...

 

I hope you get the picture in here, my friend...

 

 

 

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Well events seem to be buttressing Oodweyne's argument thus far:

 

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UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council on Wednesday eased the arms embargo on Somalia, agreeing on a one year partial lifting of the oldest international weapons blockade to help the new government.

 

The 15-member council unanimously passed to a resolution allowing light arms to be sold to the Somali armed forces as they seek to rebuild and spread government authority into territory recently held by Islamist militants.

 

The embargo was imposed in 1992, a year after the fall of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre as rival warlords battled for control of the East African nation.

 

A transitional government, backed by an African force, is just starting to establish itself after major victories against the Al Qaeda-linked Shebab group.

 

With US support, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who took office in September, has been pressing for an end to the embargo.

 

Britain, France and other countries on the council had been more reluctant to fully lift the blockade because of the risk of heightening insecurity in a country already awash with arms.

 

Resolution 2093 allows for a one year suspension of the embargo when arms will be allowed. The Security Council pointedly listed surface-to-air missiles, guns, howitzers and cannons and related ammunition and components as items that cannot be sold to Somalia.

 

The government will have to give at least five days notice of deliveries and purchases will be monitored by UN experts.

 

"The council has struck the right balance. It sends a positive signal to President Hassan Sheikh but it continues to give the council oversight of weapons flows into Somalia," said Britain's UN ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, whose country drafted the resolution.

[Abwaan]

Did they say this is because of Somaliland? Wake up people.

[Haatu]

Abwaan;924590 wrote:

Did they say this is because of Somaliland?

Wake up people.

They are trying to stay relevant dee

[oba hiloowlow]

Xaaji Xunjuf;924360 wrote:

Abwaan baad la qayisha deee, Abwaan ooo taangiyo raadinaya baa ku heley

loool

[Mintid Farayar]

Maantoo dhan gilgisha The question is did he get it right or not?

 

He said: "UK, will quietly be making sure that no government in Mogadishu will be armed in a manner that could even come close to what late Gen. Afweyne have had in his day."

[Abwaan]

Haatu;924644 wrote:

They are trying to stay relevant dee

Ha idinku taagnaato dheh. You can stay relevant by being part of Somalia....That is it. Nothing else over here.