A Letter from Lord Avebury, On 6^th of August 2009

Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:07:24 +0100

From Lord Avebury                                                       P0906082

020-7274 4617

ericavebury@gmail.com

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August 6, 2009

Dear Foreign Secretary,

The US Embassy in Nairobi issued a press statement on Monday expressing the US government’s ‘profound dismay’ at the decision by President Riyale and the NEC to scrap the voter registration list, and proceed to the election on September 27 without any list. The expert who had advised the NEC on the list was declared persona non grata and was expelled immediately.

DfID and the EU were among the donors who contributed to the funding of the voters list, and we all have an interest in the maintenance of stability in Somaliland, which has remained almost free of the violence which has plagued Somalia since the fall of Siyad Barre. Can we not persuade Riyale directly to reconsider his decision, as the Americans have done?

The Rt Hon the Lord Malloch-Brown KCMG,

Foreign & Commonwealth Office,

London SW1A 2AH.

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