Siciid85 wrote:I am more in the camp of somewhere in neutral ground. I do want Somaliland to retain its flag, armed forces, local laws and keep the revenues it collects and from its natural resources(once taped).
We co-founded the country of Somali republic, fought and died for it in wars of '64 &''77 and it makes no sense to abandon everything for Moqdishu. We want to co use the Somali passport and we want our fair share of the funds that Mogadishu takes on our behalf.
If Somalia is willing to accept that, great and if not, they can very much screw themselves
sounds great!
Those who r saying I dont wanna less than ictiraf r qarwing in my opinion
Firstly, neither us the konfurians have control on our future governance, we just implement some fait accompli policies that have been made in the neighbouring countries aka IGAD and then was received as a report- that this is the only way somalis...-by the donors who would in their turn fund the "vision"
as somalia is recovering, -though having weak institutions- many westren countries are interesting it economically such as the UK and other EU countries, others security wise such as the US...there r asians such as turkey and china...
during the tfg, there has been a group of countries known as the contact group....this group has given the UK the mandate to arrange the international conferences on somalia
a british diplomat has won too over a norwegian diplomat to lead the UNSOM in somalia
This diplomat, implements the UKs vision thats based on the IGAD reports in the last 10 years, the US has more centralist vision towards somalia and doesnt like this guy who communicates with the british ambassador to somalia
Now the UK-who has its own economical interests...- wants both north and south to open a dialogue.....this was reached in london conference
The spirit of these meetings is to get closer, a more cooperation....however, the SL side who already accepted partaking a "conference on somalia" was seeking ictiraf in every meeting while the somali govt was talking of more cooperation, free movements....establishing two airspace offices in mogadishu abd hargeysa
One of the useful things that SL achieved in these meetings were getting special arrangements in the new deal...it wasnt the donors policy rather some thing that was reached between the two sides in turkey
In the last meetings, SL has began to pressure on the SFG on opening the final files!!!
Whos crazy to open such files? our govt said ok talk about it with your northern brethern who will represent the SFG in the final files!!
Waa lago kala kacay!
SL fm has been meeting the westren diplomats in nairobi and they started opening local files!
No IGAD except djibouti!
Now SL is on the cross roads....either to deal with the govt in mogadishu and reach with her some macqoul settlement such as having a large autonomy
zanzibar could be the best model
Zanzibar was a real independent country led and dominated by the arabs and asians but its dispossessed black people wanted to unite with their brethren in tanganyika and form tanzania
Thousands of arabs and asians have been massacred for the sake of that unification
now they only share currency, foreing policy...no government or parliament...just the zanzibar parliament as institution have 5 representatives in the central parliament for coordination not as an elected mps
The other way is to keep continuing with your ictiraf seeking story and let the other somalis carry on implementing the international agenda on their way!!
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