To the fool that started this topic
Id suggest for you to read the official communique from the State Department which you can find at the below link.
http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/displ ... atest.htmlThis is what it says:
The goal of the Somalia Contact Group is quote: to encourage positive political developments and engagement with actors inside Somalia :unquotea
Pay attention to the word actors with the (s).
The State Department published another press release late last year which can be found here
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2005/54215.htmAnd it looks like the policy is very much the same, in both case now and then the USs policy was to encourage democratic political development and Somaliland falls well within the scope of what the US and this group wants to see.
What this new Group brings to the table is that, before it was all talk, now they want to add the walk too. In any case, I think Somaliland is in better position than any other entity in the former Somalia, whether its democracy divident, peace divident or anti-terrorism divident Somaliland will get its fair share of the bounty.
But this will not have anything to do with Somalilands recognition. The US and the EU already said that they were cool with the idea of granting recogntion but they wanted the African Union to champion the cause first. That is where the Somalilands current focus on the dark continent comes in.