Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo received credentials letters from the new Saudi Arabia Kingdom Ambassador to Somalia, Ahmed bin Mohammed at the presidential palace Villa Somalia.
”Today at the Presidential Palace, His Excellency President Mohamed Abdullah Farmajo received the credentials of His Excellency Ahmed bin Mohamed Saleh Al-Mawlid, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the Federal Republic of Somalia,” a statement from the office of the president read in part.
تسلم فخامة الرئيس محمد عبدالله فرماجو اليوم بقصر الرئاسة، أوراق اعتماد سعادة السيد أحمد بن محمد صالح المولد سفير المملكة العربية السعودية لدى جمهورية الصومال الفيدرالية. وأكد فخامته لسعادة السفير أحمد بن محمد تقديم كل الدعم للارتقاء بالعلاقات الثنائية بين البلدين الشقيقين. pic.twitter.com/ZWTVVRHhHS
— Villa Somalia (@TheVillaSomalia) January 19, 2022
Addressing the press after the reception ceremony, director of communications at Villa Somalia, Mr. Abdirashid M Hashi said that president Farmajo promised to provide all the necessary support to the new Ambassador in a bid to strengthen the diplomatic relations between the two countries who had been normalised recently.
Hashi said that ambassador Ahmed bin Mohamed conveyed greetings and message from the King of Saudi Arabia King Salman bin Abdul Aziz to president Farmajo about the friendly unity between the Federal government of Somalia and Saudi Arabia.
Ambassador Ahmed pledged to bolster the relations between the two brotherly nations and thanked the Federal government for the warm welcome he was accorded and for re- opening the Saudi Embassy in Mogadishu.
Saudi Arabia had closed down its embassy in Mogadishu in 1991 after the ouster of president Siyat Barre government and outbreak of the civil war.
Ahmed bin Mohammed is the second Saudi ambassador to Somalia since the collapse of the central government in 1991.
