MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A Turkish warship is ready to dock on the seaport of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Tuesday as a part of a latest protection cooperation settlement between Ankara and Mogadishu.
Turkey will present maritime safety to Somalia and can assist construct the Somali navy to have the ability to stop threats to the nation’s territorial waters as a part of the protection and financial cooperation settlement signed in February.
Somali authorities officers are anticipated to satisfy Turkish navy members as soon as the warship docks at Mogadishu seaport, signaling step one in direction of the implementation of the settlement which angered the United Arab Emirates and Ethiopia.
Mogadishu seaport has stopped operations forward of the arrival of the Turkish warship and there are studies that President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud will attend a ceremony aimed toward welcoming the ship to Somali waters.
The protection cooperation settlement between Mogadishu and Ankara got here only a few weeks after Somaliland had signed a memorandum of understanding with Ethiopia to lease a parcel of land alongside the Crimson Sea to Addis Ababa, triggering the ire of the Somali authorities. Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud mentioned the deal signed by his authorities with Turkey has nothing to do together with his authorities’s diplomatic tiff with Ethiopia and is just aimed toward securing Somalia’s territorial waters.
In response to the deal, the United Arab Emirates which funds the coaching and gear of 1000’s of Somali troops in control of the safety of Mogadishu and its surrounding environs stopped its safety help to Somalia in an try to put stress on President Mohamud’s authorities to revoke its settlement with Turkey.
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