[quote="X.Playa"]So at last after shaking their booty left and right the corrupt regime of Riyoole and the Dreamers are talking to C.Y.
But why would C.Y even bother he controlls 90% of somalia, what kind of a offer somaliland can accept and what can C.Y offer.
And don't let fanatical dreamers of somaliland tire me with non sense and negating facts, facts are:
1- somaliland was defeated by C.Y when he was the head of Puntland and weak.
2- facts are when C.Y was elected as president Daahir the Goat Hearder Riyoole vowed all out war and nothing came out of that.
3- Facts is somaliland has always maintained they will never dignifiy C.Y with a talk and yet the chairman of UDUB party the rulling party said it recently they are and they will and the constitution of somaliland accord them the right to do so.
What do i think C.Y will offer, nothing but, the 3 tonws of Isaaq the trinagle of Hrgaysa, Burco , Berbera and not even Ceerigaabo, and a new refrendum for all to decide their destiny. Thats the best,
The worst, C.Y since negotaiting from advantagouse stand can tell the Goats and their herder in Hargaysa to bite his balls and stop the non sense and join somalia.[/quote]
http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN535280.htmlSomaliland challenges Africa to recognise it
Tue 15 May 2007, 8:48 GMT
[-] Text [+] By Andrew Cawthorne
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Somaliland challenged African leaders on Tuesday to have the "bravery" to recognise the sovereignty it said was an overdue historical inevitability for the breakaway Somali enclave.
"We are a de facto state, a stable democracy in one of the most troubled parts of Africa. We have done all the things a good country is supposed to," Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi Duale said in an interview
"What we lack is the due recognition. So we hope some wise, decent, brave African head of state will call a spade a spade -- and say yes. Then others will follow."
A former British protectorate in the Horn of Africa with semi-desert terrain roughly the size of England and Wales, Somaliland declared itself a republic in 1991 after warlords toppled Somali dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
But despite plaudits for its institutions and multi-party polls, no nation has recognised the independence it craves.
The African Union generally adheres to a principle of respecting old colonial borders to avoid fanning secession conflicts.
But Somaliland points to its five days of independence within the boundaries it had as British Somaliland, before it joined the former Italian colony of Somalia in 1960.
And it argues there are African precedents for splits like Ethiopia and Eritrea in the early 1990s.
With Somalia in chaos for the 16 years Somaliland has been developing and maintaining relative security, there would be no return to union, Duale said, though he hoped they could eventually co-exist with good trade and political ties.
The pro-independence quest is, for many Somalilanders, fuelled by bitter memories of Barre's bombing of their capital Hargeisa in 1988, with massive loss of life.
SWEDISH PRECEDENT
Duale said his government was grateful to Sweden for recently announcing it would regard Somaliland as a self-governing area in terms of development aid, and believed others in northern Europe would follow suit.
But it was from African "brothers" that a breakthrough was needed for Somaliland's 3.5 million people.
"There is a great deal of sympathy which we want to transform into action ... We are challenging the morality of the African heads of state today."
Headway was being made, Duale added, citing Somaliland's healthy trade ties with Ethiopia, which he was visiting.
"Today we travel with our passports, and we are received with all the diplomatic niceties that any minister or head of state gets, with the exception of a flying flag," he said.
"We are confident we will get our recognition soon."
Diplomats say Somaliland's cause is winning most ground in east and central Africa -- notably Rwanda -- while resistance comes from Arab countries in the north like Egypt.
It has had plenty of sympathisers in the African Union, but diplomatic considerations over the interim Somali government -- which claims sovereignty over Somaliland -- have kept the discussions low-key.
But the minister said Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf would be "absolutely crazy" to think of annexing it.
[b]Duale dismissed as "complete lies" media reports that say Somaliland was holding secret talks, sponsored by Ethiopia and the United States, to consider reunification. "We are not going to back down. Ever."[/b]
Somaliland resents being cut off from world financial institutions -- one of the main tangible benefits international recognition would give.
"There is an element of hypocrisy on the part of the international community. We are fighting terror, we have democratised -- everything they preach. So give us access. Why put us in chains?" Duale said.
ask that every one in Rinkeby and they will tell you
