President Saleh receives phone call from Somali counterpart
The Source: www.sabanews.net - 18/12/2008
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President Ali Abdullah Saleh received on Wednesday a phone call from
his Somali counterpart Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed who briefed him on the
latest developments in Somalia.
The conversation included also
issues related to the piracy acts run by some Somali pirates off the
Somali coasts and in the Gulf of Aden and the Arab Sea in addition to
the anti-piracy efforts of Yemen and Somalia.
President Saleh
reiterated Yemen's stand to secure security and stability and peace in
Somalia and reactivate the role of the Somali official institutions.
Saleh
also renewed a call to the Arab countries and the international
community to shoulder their responsibilities towards what is happening
in Somalia and to help the Somali people to rebuild what have been
destroyed by war and conflicts.
President Saleh affirmed that
the exacerbated situation in Somalia will lead to further insecurity
and make Somalia a core of more problems related to the current acts of
piracy which threat the safety of the international navigation and
global trade and create the acts of terrorism in the region.
For
his part, the Somali President expressed appreciation for Yemen's
efforts in support of security and stability in his country and
receiving thousands of Somali refuges fleeing the conflicts the wars in
Somalia.
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