Thailand, Finland re-establish diplomatic relations with Somalia

Hiiraan Online
Sunday February 21, 2016

President Hassan and Thai Ambassador Mr Wetprasit at Villa Somalia. 1st Dec 2015. Photo by Villa Somalia

Mr Ahmed A. Kediye (L) Somali Deputy Foreign Minister, Daud Aweis (M), Spokesperson to the President, Hinda Ali (R) Ministry of Foreign Affairs

President Hassan and new Finish Ambassador to Somalia Tarja Orvokki Fernandez at Villa Somalia. 1st Dec, 2015. Photo by Villa Somalia

President Hassan and Thai new Ambassador to Somalia Mr Prasittiporn Wetprasit. Photo by Villa Somalia

President Hassan and Thai new Ambassador to Somalia Mr Wetprasit. 1st Dec 2015. Photo by Villa Somalia

Mr Ahmed A. Kediye (L) Somali Deputy Foreign Minister, Daud Aweis (R), Spokesperson to the President. 1st Dec. 2015. Photo by Villa Somalia

Thai Ambassador Mr Wetprasit (L), Daud Aweis (M) Spokesperson to the President, Mr Kediye (R),Somali Deputy Foreign Minister. 1st Dec. 2015. Photo by Villa Somalia

Finish Amb. to Somalia Tarja O. Fernandez (L), Mr Kediye (M) Somali Deputy Foreign Minister, Daud Aweis (R) Spokesperson to the President. 1st Dec. 2015. Photo by Villa Somalia

MOGADISHU (HOL) – Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has received credentials from two new ambassadors from Thailand and Finland Saturday, in the latest sign of improving relations between the horn of Africa nation and other countries after more than two decades of war.

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Many countries including the US resumed their diplomatic ties with Somalia in recent years, in a striking diplomatic shift by many countries that severed their relations with Somalia in 1991 after warlords overthrew the central government led by Mohamed Siad Barre, plunging the country into one of the world’s deadliest and longest conflict.

Having received the credentials from Bhumibol Adulyadej, the new Thai ambassador to Somalia and his Finnish counterpart Tarja Orvokki Fernandez, Mr. Mohamud signaled his government’s desire to strengthen bilateral relations with the two countries.

He also pledged his country’s determination to establish friendship and close cooperation with the two countries, in the interests of the friendly peoples in the three countries.

Somalia which is recovering from decades of war has been struggling to make a diplomatic come back across the world in recent years having managed to restore normal diplomatic relations with numerous countries.

The new diplomatic exercise comes following the ouster of Islamist insurgents from the capital and surrounding regions, a development which officials said allowed former partner countries to start resuming a diplomatic presence in the seaside capital, Mogadishu.

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