London-(Berberanews)- British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that the UK government will host a conference on Somalia next year. In his speech to the Lord Mayor’s banquet on Monday, the Prime Minister said that Somalia is a failed state and it threatened British interests. : “Tourists and aid workers were kidnapped. Young British minds poisoned by radicalism. Mass migration. Vital trade routes disrupted”, he said
“We shouldn’t tolerate this. Somali pirates aren’t invincible: they are violent and lawless men in small boats and it is time we properly stood up to them”, the Prime Minister added. He continued saying: “That’s why British vessels can now carry arms. But there is a real and pressing need to pull together the international effort. That is why Britain will host a major conference in London next year, to focus attention on: protecting merchant ships passing through the Gulf of Aden tackling pirates pressuring the extremists supporting countries in the region and addressing the causes of conflict and instability in Somalia”
Details of exact date of the conference and the countries that will participate have to be announced later on.
Somalia was in chaos, from 1991, after the fall of Siad Barre’s military government. The actual government of President Sheikh Sharif holds 98% of the capital Mogadishu, thanks to AMISOM’s effort, but Al-shabaab radicals control the rest of the country.
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