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s that this is a 'policing' operation. Recognition would also make it possible to exclude Somaliland from international sanctions rightly imposed on Somalia as a whole. EFTA00795455 • Piracy: The Somaliland coast borders the vital commercial waterway of the Gulf of Men. currently threatened by pirate

Piracy: The Somaliland coast borders the vital commercial waterway of the Gulf of Men. currently threatened by pirates based largely in neighbouring Puntland; while some international aid has helped to strengthen the Somaliland coastguard. further collaboration. including the use of Somaliland ports by o

e division or fragmentation of existing states should be managed peacefully and by negotiation. But where this is not possible, as is the case with Somalia. international law accepts that the interests of justice may prevail over the principle of territorial integrity.' • 2005 African Union fact-findin

bove). O in 2010. the African Union Peace and Security Council directed the AU Commission Chairperson to 'broaden consultations with Somaliland and Puntland". • The United Nations O 18 UN agencies have been physically established in Somaliland. including UNDP. UNFPA, UNAIDS. UNHCR. UNICEF. WHO and WFP.

and's legal claim rests on its history — the fact that it was granted independence by Britain in 1960 and, having entered an unsuccessful union with Somalia, simply wants to return to its original sovereign borders. Importantly, Somaliland has all the attributes of statehood as defined by the 1933 Monte

nuing to lobby the AU. In 2010, the Peace and Security Council directed the AU Commission Chairperson to 'broaden consultations with Somaliland and Puntland" which we welcome. We are strengthening ties with African countries alongside the UK, US and EU. The President and Foreign Minister have been recei

there is instability and weak governance are particularly vulnerable. Polio was limited to a few isolated regions of Afghanistan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia and Syria but due to intensifying conflict and low immunization levels the disease was able to spillover to neighboring states Ethiopia, Cameroon,

zed along competing clan and sub-clan lines — turned on each other. While some areas of Somalia, such as the northern quasi-states of Somaliland and Puntland — remained peaceful, clan and warlord based violence convulsed the southern and central regions of the country.n2 By mid-1992, the international co