A Somali MP Accuses UAE of Siding with Ethiopia – Puntland Submit

The President of the Federal Authorities of Somalia, H.E Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Mogadishu (PP Information Desk) — A Somali MP has criticised the Federal Authorities of Somalia for not submitting bilateral agreements to the bicameral legislature. “It’s incumbent on the Federal Authorities of Somalia to share with the legislature all bilateral agreements for dialogue. The federal government signed a bilateral [defence] settlement with Ethiopia, and one other [security] settlement with the United Arab Emirates. Different Arab international locations have expressed help for our territorial integrity glorious the United Arab Emirates. We suspect that UAE is in cahoots with Ethiopia over the Memorandum of Understanding” stated Mohamed Osman, a federal MP.

**The Somali language press launch on the “renewal of the defence settlement” doesn’t include a reference to “maritime safety cooperation”**

The Federal Authorities of Somali is reportedly dragging its toes to share the main points of the defence pact with whose articles contains “cooperation on maritime safety”, a reference that was overlooked within the Somali language press launch “on the renewal of defence cooperation” first signed earlier than 2016.

**Mohamed Omar: “We suspect that UAE is in cahoots with Ethiopia over the Memorandum of Understanding.”**

Addis Normal reported {that a} maritime cooperation clause was included within the settlement whose particulars the Federal Authorities of Somali retains secret for worry of being accused of collusion with Ethiopia over the signing of the Memorandum Of Understanding with Somaliland President Muse Bihi, who claimed that President Mohamed had been conscious of his intention to signal a MoU with Ethiopia.

“President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has to authorise the discharge of the main points of defence cooperation settlement for dialogue by MPs. We have to perceive why the Somali Defence Minister Abdulqadir Nur allowed for the inclusion of maritime safety cooperation within the renewal defence settlement regardless of Ethiopia being a landlocked nation” stated a Federal MP who spoke to Puntland Submit on the situation of anonymity.

Final yr, the UAE authorities and the Federal Authorities of Somalia signed a safety settlement. The UAE parastatal DP World runs Berbera Port. In 2018 the earlier Federal Authorities of Somalia protested a navy base that UAE in-built Berbera with out the authorisation of the Mogadishu-based authorities.