Somaliland Sends Message Of Condolences To Ethiopian Bombing Victims

By Adam Muse Jibril

HARGEISA, Somaliland, June 1, 2007 – Abdillahi M. Dualeh, Somaliland’s minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of Somaliland has sent a message of condolence to his Ethiopian counterpart Seyum Mesfin, in relation to the terrorist attacks in Jigjiga and Dhahbour of the Ethiopian Somali region.

In it Dualeh expressed his concerns and condemned the terrorists acts calling it a ‘savage terrorist killings’. The minister also sent out condolences on behalf of the government of Somaliland to the Ethiopian government, the people of Ethiopia, friends and relatives of the deceased and injured.

On another occasion, the 16th anniversary of the downfall of the Dergue regime of 28 May was observed here in Hargeisa, the capital city of the Republic of Somaliland for the first time. Participants in the occasion from Somaliland side were; the Speaker of the House of representatives, Ministers of foreign Affairs, Finance, Defense, Public Works, Leaders of the political parties, chairman of the Kulmiye, General Secretary of the UCID party, and large group of Hargeisa business and ordinary citizens.

The head of the Ethiopian Trade office Ambassador Demise Webishet in his official speech on the occasion addressed a wide spectrum of issues, mainly about historical significance that the 28 May occasion stands for the Ethiopia people’s struggle for peace, democracy and modernization, and has underlined the progress made by Ethiopia for the last sixteen years in the areas of economic achievements, democratization, and good governance, as well as the great challenges confronted specially on regional front where terrorism became the main enemy of peace and stability not only for Ethiopia but indeed that of the region at large he stated. He has also emphasized the negative role the Eritrean regime has been playing in the region by conspiring against peace and stability through the support, organizing and mobilizing terrorist groups in Somalia and elsewhere, and engaged in international terrorist acts, whose subversive activities undermine the peace and stability in the region and the world at large. He has also mentioned the role of Al-Shabab group in Somalia as currently a threat to the stability in the region.

Observers of the Ethio-Somaliland relations have noted that the celebration of the Ethiopian National day in Hargeisa, for the first time reflects the development of the Ethio-Somaliland relations to a strategic level of partnership.

Source: The Sub-Saharan Informer

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