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Sovereignty is the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory. It can be found in a power to rule and make law that rests on a political fact for which no purely legal explanation can be provided. It has nothing to do with how many beatufullt paved roads you have or how many high rise buildings are erected in said territory.
Btw if Somaliland had as much oil as Kurdistan our infrustracture would be just as well developed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SovereigntySovereignty is the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory.[1][2] It can be found in a power to rule and make law that rests on a political fact for which no purely legal explanation can be provided
These guys need to realize that unlike the Kurds who are walking away with the best parts of Iraq, they'll be walking away with quite literally the shittiest part of Somalia; the agriculture and minerals are in the south and the only oil exploration in former Somalia has only ever occurred in Garowe. Even hypothetically if Somalilanders were an oppressed tribe of Bantus they'd be better off waiting for the cruel south to achieve peace than to split. The brilliant and tragic part here is that Somaliland leaders don't want independence, they can only siphon aid money for so long, there's no potential in that. Remittance, aid, and livestock trade can only go so far.
Your ignorance about Somaliland is mind boggling to say the least.Dr-Yalaxoow brings a good question to mind - why haven't Somalilanders built an inch of infrastructure since Siad Barre
While i agree with that their are political incentives involving in recognition, this though doesnt qualify as one; maybe the aid the US would have to flush out yearly to the country would be labarous. Perhaps Ethiopia would have a stacke in recognising Somaliland as to perhaps counter and bulwark any Greater Somalia aspirations.there has to be a payoff for every hour spent preparing political relations with the world and the new country in question; those hours need to be compensated
There is only political interest, nothing else.Your last line answers the recognition question. Recognition as a nation is political, thus economic. For any country to recognize you there would have to be either overwhelming political gain or modest financial gain. There is neither in Somaliland. Recognizing Kurdistan is political suicide much worse than even Somaliland, but the tremendous financial gain makes up for their case. No one is ready to recognize an empty region with little political incentive. Recognizing a country is a laborious task, there has to be a payoff for every hour spent preparing political relations with the world and the new country in question; those hours need to be compensated, and Somaliland has nothing to compensate those hours. This is not about Somaliland's competence as a nation-state, but rather the its legal political future. Such is life.
^^No, cruel would be to get into a discussion about the pathetic state of affairs in Somalia and kililka shanaad.
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