hadhwanaag 2007-06-14 (Hadhwanaagnews) South Africa (HadhwnaagNews)- German government is taking a new political direction towards Somaliland's case. Prof. Iqbal Jhazbhay has sent this note from South Africa.
The German Parliament passed a
resolution today, inter alia "asking the German Federal Government to
work towards mitigating dangers for Somaliland's stability that may
arise from the current Southern Somali scenario".
The parliament is asking the government "to examine whether initiatives to advance the
resolution of the question of an international recognition of an
independent Somaliland appear useful in the framework of a
peace-advancing policy at this stage".
Furthermore, the parliamentarians "demand that the government holds interim president
Abdullahi Yussuf to account not to take any unilateral steps that relate to this question and which could provoke a deterioration of security in the the Republic of Somaliland".
This is another little step towards recognition goal and if I may say a hard-won one. The German Parliament's document were written with out the
WITHOUT the usual " " (quatation marks) before and after the Republic of Somaliland's name.
Iqbal Jhazbhay
University of South Africa
http://www.unisa.ac.za
