President Silanyo Receives Deputy British Ambassador to Ethiopia
Hargeisa, Nov 06, 2013(SDN) -Somaliland president Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud Silanyo has on today received the deputy British Ambassador to Ethiopia Mr. Chris Allan at the presidential palace. Somaliland’s minister of commerce and investment Dr. Mohamed Abdillahi Omar who hold a press conference with the visiting British Ambassador Chris Allan at the presidential palace following Chris Allan’s meeting with president Silanyo has said that Somaliland is committed to improve relations with the UK government.
“The people of Somaliland are committed to further improving our bilateral relations with the both the people and government of the UK government and we are eager to enhance relations with the government of UK and toady we had the opportunity to hold lengthy discussions in which they explored ways to enhance future bilateral relation between the Somaliland and the UK Government” Dr. Mohamed Abdilahi said during the press conference.
The visiting British diplomat has said during the press conference “We just had a rewarding meeting with President Silanyo and his team of ministers in which we reaffirmed the UK commitment to a strong and historic friendship with Somaliland and the strength of this feeling with Somaliland should not be underestimated”,.
The British Ambassador went on to say, “We (British Government) are committed to a number of issues in the horn of Africa region such as human development, security and stability but we are also committed to enhance the historic friendship between our people and we discussed the political and development cooperation as well as stimulating future investment and I am also very pleased to announce that we shall soon be launch Somaliland Development Fund (SDF)which is a new form of bilateral assistance of which the UK has helped drive here in Somaliland and which for the first time align the donor community”,.
“The Somaliland Development Fund will help donors fund efforts behind Somaliland own National Development plan in their aim to enhance the governmental structures and the rule of law; improve the livelihoods of people; and make them resilient and we hope to launch that in few weeks’ time, on security too we find ourselves to be Somaliland closest supports in order to assist your security forces and police to maintain stability which is extremely important to both Somaliland and the UK and on politics we remain as I said Somaliland closest friend in the international community who are committed to secure stability and progress in the region and those were some of the brief words we exchanged with His Excellency President Ahmed Silanyo”,stated the UK Diplomat.
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