Somalia Parliament will soon receive an agreement recently signed but not yet ratified by the Kenyan and Somali government. The agreement, according to reports, deals with the demarcation of sea borders between the two countries.
The Speaker of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Sheik Aadan Mohamed Nuur (Sheik Madobe) said that the TFG has submitted to the Parliament an agreement (between Kenya and Somalia) and that Parliamentarians will have an opportunity to debate the agreement.
Sheik Aadan told the BBC that the agreement will be ratified if Parliamentarians feel that ratifying the agreement is in the interest of Somalis and Somalia but if Parliamentarians feel otherwise it will be rejected.
Soon after the TFG signed the agreement, there was uproar in many circles in Somalia and among Somalis in the Diaspora after reports claiming that the TFG signed away land that belong to Somalia came out.
Some experts in the law of sea and international affairs contended that the agreement was a land transfer from Somalia to Kenya and advised the TFG to withdraw from the agreement before it is implemented by the UN in the month August.
Now that the agreement will soon be before Parliamentarians to debate it, the rest of Somalis will have an opportunity to judge whether the agreement is in Somalia’s best interest or not.
Source: HOL
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