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<\/p>\nObviously thrown off by the burgeoning relationship between the Republic of Somaliland and Taiwan, the federal government of Somalia makes a number of factual and diplomatic errors in a protest statement it released, today, Tuesday.<\/p>\n
First it kept repeating the \u2018Federal Republic of Somalia\u2019 in conjunction with reference to a Somaliland belonging to that entity when it never had.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Federal Government of Somalia condemns Taiwan\u2019s reckless attempts to infringe on the Sovereignty of the Federal Republic of Somalia and violate its Territorial Integrity,\u201d the Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement began with.<\/p>\n
The Republic of Somaliland was not a signatory to the federal system of Somalia, including the constitution that defined it.<\/p>\n
Then it follows with another blunder with a thinly concealed threat that, again, the \u2018Federal Republic of Somalia\u2019\u00a0 stood \u2018to protect its Sovereignty, the Unity of its People and its Territorial Integrity\u2019.<\/p>\n
It did not explain how a thirty-year-old country that was better governed, more democratic and its own system of government, army, currency, passport, and parliament could be protected from pursuing its own interests.<\/p>\n
Somaliland zealously joined Italian Somalia in 1960 in the hope that the three other Somali-inhabited territories of Djibouti, NFD (Kenya) and Hawd\/Reserve Area of Ethiopia would join them to form a Greater Somalia. The two merged as the Somali Republic. That merger effectively ended in 1969 when the military took over the leadership and a formed a government it called the \u2018Somali Democratic Republic\u2019. That regime ruled the country for 21 more years and was deposed in 1991 with the help of the Somaliland fighting front the SNM. The Republic of Somaliland from the ashes of destruction of those thirty years the same year and has been on its own since then.<\/p>\n
Ignoring history and the internationally witnessed march of events, Somalia that is only in existence by the race of an indulging, benign but over-exhausted international community, still insists that Somaliland was once part of a defunct Somalia.<\/p>\n
\u2018The Federal Government of Somalia, therefore, calls on Taiwan to cease its misinformed ventures into any part of the territory of the Federal Republic of Somalia. These Principles are non-negotiable to the Federal Government of Somalia,\u201d the Foreign Affairs statement said, repeating itself and its obsession with the word \u2018federal\u2019.<\/p>\n
The word \u2018Republic\u2019 is a new addition to the country\u2019s name, too. As of recent, it was only the \u2018Federal Government of Somalia\u2019 \u2013 and that is how the world still referred to it.<\/p>\n
Then the statement lets go its last salvo taking heart, clearly, from all-around support it expected of China to offset repercussion and in the case it backfired.<\/p>\n
\u2018The Federal Government of Somalia shall undertake necessary measures within international law to protect the country\u2019s Unity, Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity and Political Independence,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
Taiwan and Somaliland announced a relationship that took most of the world bu surprise on 1 July 2020, making the Republic of Somaliland the second country to grant Taiwan a full foothold in the continent. Tiny Eswatini preceded it.<\/p>\n
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A pre-recorded congratulatory message by President Tsai Ing-wen was played and Foreign Minister Joseph Wu delivered his remarks live via a video call during the opening ceremony which was attended by Professor Yassin Mohamoud Hiir, the Somaliland Foreign Minister and a phalanx of top government, the business community and diplomatic dignitaries.<\/p>\n