Kenya Refuses To Take Somalia Seriously

[Mintid Farayar]

Kenyatta keeps position on border issue

19 September 2014

The Indian Ocean Newsletter

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Uhuru Kenyatta is intransigent on the dispute with Somalia over the demarcation of the maritime boundary.

 

The Kenyan diplomats are desperately trying to persuade their President Uhuru Kenyatta, to accept to have a meeting with his Somalian opposite number Hassan Sheikh Mahamud while they are both in New York for the 69th United Nations General Assembly. But Kenyatta will only contemplate having such a meeting in Nairobi; he considers New York would not be a suitable place to discuss their disagreement on the maritime boundary and oil exploration in the corresponding offshore zone. Moreover, he is in a huff because he did not appreciate Mogadishu taking the matter to the International Court of Fustice (ICJ) in The Hague (ION 1386). He has placed the condition that Somalia withdraw its complaint with the ICJ before resuming discussions.

 

Meanwhile, the Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Amina Mohamed, is lobbying Vice President William Ruto, the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury Joseph Kinyua and the heads of the defence and security services to bring the president round to a more flexible position. The president tends to believe that the dispute could be settled merely by holding discussions between technical teams from the two countries.

[Odey]

You have to take yourself serious before others do. With Qoslaaye at the helm, how can anyone take Somalia seriously? He is laughing all the time!

[DoctorKenney]

We have a President who infamously laughed after Villa Somalia was attacked by Al Shabab!!

 

How could anyone take Somalia seriously!?

[Khayr]

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You have to take yourself serious before others do. With Qoslaaye at the helm, how can anyone take Somalia seriously? He is laughing all the time!

 

Somalis sound like the people of موس.

[burahadeer]

^ figured you not Somali long ago ,and who were the people of Moses?

 

back to topic, Kenya was underdog since the Somali civil war and now dictating; making use of the Somali lull....til when? who knows.