Taipe:-Taiwan and Somaliland signed an agreement on energy and mineral resources cooperation Monday that Taiwan\u2019s office in Somaliland said provides a legal foundation for joint resource exploration and drilling activities and other related initiatives.
\nThe agreement was signed by Economic Affairs Minister Wang Mei-hua (\u738b\u7f8e\u82b1) in Taipei and Somaliland Energy and Minerals Minister Abdilahi Farah Abdi in Somaliland at different times on Monday, according to a Facebook post by Taiwan\u2019s representative office in Hargeisa.
\nTaiwan\u2019s representative to Somaliland, Allen Lou (\u7f85\u9707\u83ef), witnessed Abdi\u2019s signing of the agreement at a ceremony held at Somaliland\u2019s Ministry of Energy and Minerals, according to the representative office.
\nThe pact is aimed at establishing a solid legal foundation for bilateral energy and mineral resources cooperation, and a task force will be formed to facilitate information sharing, exploration and drilling, capacity building and training, the office said.
\n\u201cOn the road to energy independence, Taiwan and Somaliland will walk side by side,\u201d the office said.
\nDuring the ceremony, Abdi thanked Taiwan\u2019s government for its support, saying the agreement covered sectors important to Somaliland\u2019s development.
\nIn December 2021, Taiwan\u2019s CPC Corp. signed a farm-out agreement with U.K.-based Genel Energy to acquire 49 percent of the rights to explore the hydrocarbon resources in the SL10B\/13 mining area, and the deal was later approved by the Somaliland government.
\nLou said the first exploration well will be drilled in 2023.
\nSomaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 and has functioned as a de facto state since then, but it has yet to be recognized diplomatically by any other country in the world.
\nTaiwan and Somaliland set up representative offices in each other\u2019s capitals in 2020.<\/p>\n
By Huang Ya-shih and Evelyn Kao
\nSource: Focus Taiwan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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