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says US arming Somalia "aggravate, prolong"
crisis
Mogadishu
28 June 2009 Waagacusub Media.
Eritrean Gov has described The
US Government’s weapons offer as "aggravate, prolong"
crisis.
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In a statement is issued is below:
The spokesman of the State Department announced yesterday
that the United States will deliver a new consignment
of arms to a "government" that is devoid of
any legitimacy and whose control does not extend beyond
few neighbourhoods in Mogadishu.
The spokesman also alluded, in a passing remark, to
his "concerns" on the role of Eritrea in Somalia.
These pronouncements do not contain novel or substantive
elements. Nonetheless, the government of Eritrea is
obliged to repeat well-known facts on the situation
in Somalia in order to put the record straight.
The crux of the problem underpinning the crisis in
Somalia does not, and has never revolved around, the
issue of extremism or non-extremist. It squarely revolves
around the overarching issue of the existence or non-existence
of a sovereign Somali State. Oversimplification of the
problem and its wrong portrayal as a contest between
extremist and non-extremist forces is thus neither sincere
nor warranted by the facts on the ground.
To accept a fragmented Somalia as an accomplished fact
and to forcibly install, without the consent and choice
of the Somali people, "governments" who bear
various labels and mantels, in the neighbourhoods of
"Mogadishu" and "Baidoa" cannot
be legal by any standards. These approaches will not
also contribute to a solution of the fundamental problem.
As it is patently clear, no power in the world is above
the rule of law. As such, no one can forcibly install
a government of this nature in contravention of international
law and the Charter of the United Nations. Furthermore,
and as it is sadly attested by events in the past years,
this course of action is fraught with destructive consequences.
These are the indelible facts. In the event, the government
of Eritrea has not recognized in the past "governments"
imposed through external interferences and that ran
counter to the legal and political realities in Somalia.
And, it shall not do so in the future. In our view,
if the yardstick is legality and accepted legal norms,
no other government can indulge in unwarranted recognition
of such "governments".
The government and people of Eritrea have the right
and obligation to extend their moral and political support
to the people of Somalia on the basis of these standard
legal principles; and, in order to advance the choice
of the Somali people, the continued existence of a sovereign
Somalia and to put an end the enormous suffering of
the Somali people. To distort the stance of the people
and government of Eritrea, and to use it as a pretext
for illegal acts, will not only aggravate the crisis
in Somalia but it will also be futile and counterproductive.
US misguided acts of intervention and supply of weapons
have not, in the past years, advanced the cause of stability
in Somalia. A repeat of those measures will not produce
positive results but only aggravate and prolong the
crisis.
[Issued by] Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Abdi Wahid Nur Baadshaa
koonaa6@hotmail.com
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Capetown-Somalia
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