Italy is \u201cstrongly determined to continue its support for Somalia\u2019s efforts at stabilization, and especially on the security front\u201d, Minister Giulio Terzi assured at the end of a meeting today at the foreign ministry in Rome with the Prime Minister of the Somali Transitional Government Abdiweli Mohamed Ali. \u201cA fundamental aspect of our relations with our Somali friends\u201d, Terzi underscored, \u201cis our support for development and the eradication of poverty\u201d.<\/P>
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In addition, Terzi believes that \u201cthe process of transition in Somalia, which has been going on for 8 years now, must come to an end, according to the principles of Garowe (guidelines adopted last summer by the Somali government for the establishment of new institutions), which must be enacted by next summer\u201d. Speaking of the conference on Somalia to be held in London on 23 February, Terzi said he expected \u201cthe international community\u2019s heavy commitment and strengthening of the stabilization process, in terms of security but also of the launch of a process leading to the creation of a new Constitution, a parliament and a government that is no longer transitional but the expression of the voice of the Somali population in all its various components\u201d. <\/P>
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The Somali Prime Minister urged Italy to take a \u201cguiding role in the peace process and in the reconstruction of Somalia\u201d. \u201cOurs is an historic friendship\u201d, he added. \u201cThe Somali people have high expectations of the Italian government\u2019s support for security and the further development of our institutions\u201d.<\/P>
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As for the situation on the ground, Terzi asserted that the fundamentalist Shabaab rebels were in increasing difficulty both militarily and on the level of consensus\u201d, and that the goal is to \u201cundermine the environment of complicity and consensus that has allowed the Shabaab to root themselves in some areas\u201d of Somalia.<\/P>
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With regard to piracy, \u201cWe will do everything possible to return the kidnapped to their families\u201d, the Somali Prime Minister promised, referring to the abduction of the Italian ship Enrico Ievoli and its 18 crew members, six of whom are Italians. \u201cWe will do our best with our limited means\u201d, Ali added, and that \u201ca common strategy is needed\u201d to confront the threat of piracy, which, he maintained, \u201cis not only a Somali problem but a regional concern that involves the entire international community\u201d.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy is \u201cstrongly determined to continue its support for Somalia\u2019s efforts at stabilization, and especially on the security front\u201d, Minister Giulio Terzi assured at the end of a meeting today at the foreign ministry in Rome with the Prime Minister of the Somali Transitional Government Abdiweli Mohamed Ali. \u201cA fundamental aspect of our relations with […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,29],"class_list":["post-21008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-africa","tag-cooperazione-sviluppo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}