MOGADISHU (RBC) Somalia’s federal president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has on Thursday received credentials from the new South Korean ambassador to Somalia Kim Chan Woo in Mogadishu, RBC Radio reports.
The Deputy Foreign Minister of Somalia Federal Government Jamaal Mohamed Baarow said the president also welcomed the resuming diplomatic relations between Somalia and South Korea for than two decades after the collapse of former Somali regime in 1991.
“The South Korean Republic will also re-open its embassy in Mogadishu and that paves new relations between the two nations.” the deputy foreign minister added.
The new South Korean ambassador to Somalia Kim Chan Woo said his government will start agricultural and technical projects which the South Korean used to fund to help Somali people before the civil wars erupted in the country.
He said South Korea has the experience for the rebuild of a nation like Somalia in the post-conflict as Korean people maintained the development of their country after the Korean war ended in 1950s.
