{"id":58212,"date":"2020-07-09T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/?p=58212"},"modified":"2020-07-09T20:05:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T20:05:10","slug":"kenya-to-preparing-somaliland-for-recognition-by-the-un-security-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/09\/kenya-to-preparing-somaliland-for-recognition-by-the-un-security-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya to preparing Somaliland for recognition by the UN Security Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya, which recently won a non-permanent \u00a0membership of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/securitycouncil\/\">United Nations Security Council,<\/a>\u00a0has launched a plan to bring Somaliland\u2019s independence issue to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, currently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/au.int\/en\/high-representatives\">the AU Commissioner for Development and Infrastructure<\/a>, and appointed Chairperson of the AU Commission, after his appointment in October 2018, is planning a motion on Somaliland\u2019s case to the Security Council.United Nations. According to the Kenya Communications Office Twitter @kenya Liaison.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya, now a non-permanent member at the UNSC, is determined to see Somaliland claim her quest for international recognition. AU High Rep for Infrastructure\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RailaOdinga\">@RailaOdinga<\/a>is crafting a bill to be passed by Kenya\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NAssemblyKE\">@NAssemblyKE<\/a>, kickstarting the process.<\/p>\n<p>Somaliland ambassador in Kenya, on his part said that Kenya and Somaliland have a long history of cooperation. We look forward to building on our relationship to strengthen the many areas of interest to our people, such as the World Market today, he said, Ambbassador Bashe posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKenya and Somaliland have a long history of partnership. We hope to build on our robust relationship in a wide range of fields that are dear to us for the benefit of our people.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s global marketplace a relationships matter more than borders and we look forward to enhancing ours for the mutual benefit of our citizenry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=Araweelonews&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1280871027988463619&amp;lang=en-gb&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.araweelonews.com%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkenya-to-preparing-somaliland-for-recognition-by-the-un-security-council%2F&amp;siteScreenName=Araweelonews&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=9066bb2%3A1593540614199&amp;width=500px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1280871027988463619\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Somaliland acknowledges the Kenyan Govermnet intrests in the fields of trade, investment, tourism, education and the fight against terrorism. Ambassador Bashe Awil Omar, Representative of Somaliland to Kenya and Head of the Somaliland Liaison Office in Nairobi, wrote on his Twitter account.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=Araweelonews&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1280883583138365449&amp;lang=en-gb&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.araweelonews.com%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkenya-to-preparing-somaliland-for-recognition-by-the-un-security-council%2F&amp;siteScreenName=Araweelonews&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=9066bb2%3A1593540614199&amp;width=500px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1280883583138365449\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>On the other hand, Garowe Online, who wrote about this, and discussed in lengthy plans for Kenya, used the headline \u201cKenya is pushing for Somaliland to gain international recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kenya has recently succeeded to become non-permanent members of the Security Council, after competing with Djibouti in a landslide victory, and will begin its mandate by January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Country is not the first time joins the non-permanent members of the Security Council, between 1997-1998, but Kenya, the returning in after 23 years was a non-permanent member of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/securitycouncil\/\">United Nations Security Counci<\/a>l.<\/p>\n<p>In Kenya and the Republic of Somaliland, we have no territorial and maritime boundaries, and no air border, but the two have a historic relationship that cannot be traced back to the last century when Somaliland came to power. -and, as the Horn of Africa as a model of security, development, trade, the democratic process and free elections Somaliland,\u00a0 Kenya has greatly enjoyed the stability of its neighbor Somaliland, and the plight of her neighbors in Somalia over the last twenty years that has affected her security.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-3\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=Araweelonews&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-3&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1280871027988463619&amp;lang=en-gb&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.araweelonews.com%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkenya-to-preparing-somaliland-for-recognition-by-the-un-security-council%2F&amp;siteScreenName=Araweelonews&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=9066bb2%3A1593540614199&amp;width=500px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1280871027988463619\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>READ: Kenya\u2019s former prime minister\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.araweelonews.com\/news-in-english\/kenyas-former-prime-minister-and-african-union-special-envoy-odinga-is-on-a-mission-impossible-to-free-somaliland\/\">and African Union special envoy, Odinga, is on a \u2018mission impossible\u2019 to \u2018free\u2019 Somaliland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya, which recently won a non-permanent \u00a0membership of the\u00a0United Nations Security Council,\u00a0has launched a plan to bring Somaliland\u2019s independence issue to the United Nations. Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, currently\u00a0the AU Commissioner for Development and Infrastructure, and appointed Chairperson of the AU Commission, after his appointment in October 2018, is planning a motion on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-english-news","category-featured","category-videos","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arabsiyonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Snapshot_1613.png?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5kp1p-f8U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58214,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58212\/revisions\/58214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}