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The Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, received today at Palazzo Chigi, the Prime Minister of Somalia, Abdullahi Mohamed Mohamed.

Italy was the first European country visited by the Prime Minister of Somalia since taking office at the head of the Transitional Federal Government.

During the talks, a release of Palazzo Chigi-Prime Minister Berlusconi has renewed political and financial support to the Somali government and the Italian stabilization process in place.

The Italian Prime Minister and the Prime Minister of Somalia have been reaching agreements, especially on safety issues: the fight against terrorism in Somalia and the fight against piracy off the coast of the Horn of Africa .

The meeting’s main objectives are to underscore the importance of Italy’s commitment to fostering a resolution to the crisis in Somalia, examine the prospects of the Federal Transitional Institutions, and to stress the need for the Mogadishu government’s concrete commitment to re-establishing peace in the country. Minister Frattini, who considers the Somalia dossier one of Italy’s top foreign policy priorities, will also be present at Berlusconi’s encounter with Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed “Farmajo”.

The meeting, convened on the request of Somalia, is taking place seven months prior to the end of the Mogadishu Federal Institutions’ transition period. Premier “Farmajo” has set up a more manageable government than those of the past (17 ministers), and will probably ask Italy and the international community for support in involving the most cooperative part of the Somali Diaspora in bringing peace back to the country.

Italy, as the ministry’s Director General for the Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, Rosa Anna Coniglio, explained, “will have to evaluate” relations with Somalia, and the Somali premier must “clarify what his plans are” for the final seven months of his mandate, which should close the transitional phase and lead to stable institutions and a legitimate government, as envisaged in the 2008 Djibouti Accord. The present Somali government will have to complete “concrete steps” in the implementation of what are known as the “transitional tasks”, i.e. a national reconciliation strategy, development of governance capacity and re-instatement of essential services for the people. And Italy “will do everything necessary to help, with the understanding, however, that “ownership of the process must be Somalia’s”.

The Somali premier’s mission to Rome follows one to New York, where he held meetings behind closed doors with the Security Council, and is Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed’s first visit to Italy since taking up his post, confirming that Italy is considered a key partner in the Horn of Africa and an indispensible interlocutor in the process of stimulating and steering the international community’s support for Somalia’s stablisation.

Italy plays an advocacy role within the EU framework on behalf of the organisation’s greater role in this process. Minister Frattini has involved the EU in a profound reflection on Somalia and sent papers to its Special Representative for Foreign Policy Catherine Ashton containing concrete proposals that have been examined in the External Affairs Council.

On the financial front, €27 million euro has been earmarked for two years, to be divided among: the Italia-Africa peace facility (a fund managed through the African Union and that presents Italy with projects to fund); support for AMISOM (the AU’s military mission in Somalia); support for Somali governance (ministries of foreign affairs, interior, communications, and Radio Magadishu); the Italian Cooperation’s water, healthcare, education and anti-drought programmes.

On the theme of piracy, it is Italy’s belief that, in addition to the forces at sea (currently engaged in two naval missions in the Horn of Africa, for the NATO and the UN), it is necessary to develop the coastal regions that pirates are sailing from. Italy has also proposed the establishment of a special ad hoc tribunal for pirates, as well as for the terrorists that control half of Somalia MAE/EN




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And what will this do for Somalia will italy send troops to Somalia and recolonize the place also can you put some pictures up of the two shaking hands, and last but not least did they eat faarmaajo together

ahmad guray the The Insider

khalid ali wrote:And what will this do for Somalia will italy send troops to Somalia and recolonize the place also can you put some pictures up of the two shaking hands, and last but not least did they eat faarmaajo together

Dude i know things on the recognition front has closed down for hargeisa. But be positive to changes for Somalia, after all we both hail from this nation

ahmad guray wrote:ahmad guray the The Insider

Coeus wrote:

khalid ali wrote:And what will this do for Somalia will italy send troops to Somalia and recolonize the place also can you put some pictures up of the two shaking hands, and last but not least did they eat faarmaajo together

Dude i know things on the recognition front has closed down for hargeisa. But be positive to changes for Somalia, after all we both hail from this nation

you doing it again you inject hargeysa in a topic about about faarmaajo meeting the Berlusconi the player
walahi your some weird dude you get stick to the topic you started

ha noolaato

Im just saying, when british soldiers come to honore graves in Somaliland, or when Brittain pays aid to Somaliland. Nobody gives a negative view, or says "are they going to colonize Somaliland" But when positive changes is done by farmaajo, you inject those negative things saaxib.

Coues enough is enough. Leave the SL'ers alone, its called plain bullying!

XaliimoFarax wrote:Coues enough is enough. Leave the SL'ers alone, its called plain bullying!

Om im sorry

Italy has somalia national assets i am currious about the total sum?

- Airforce hardwear
- Former embassy(who is the landlord?)

An audit needs to be conducted on how the nation acquired a depth of 1.7billion by year 2000!

Ahmad guray the insider