By Yussuf Karani
HARGEISA– Ucid Party Leader Feisal Ali Warabe has warned the United Nations Security Council against meddling into the affairs of Somaliland.
In a statement on his Twitter handle, Warabe said that the Somaliland is not part and parcel of UNSC.
“UNSC does not have any legal authority to meddle into the affairs of Somaliland since we are not member of the UN ,let them not to discuss the position of Somaliland when they are talking ” he said.
The UNSC has no legal or moral jurisdiction over Somaliland since we are not a member of the UN and they don't make any attempt to address the status of Somaliland in their deliberations. Either you acknowledge our existence or you spare us your preaching. pic.twitter.com/dEf8Dm9YgZ
— Faysal Ali Warabe (@FaisalAliWarabe) June 7, 2023
In a press release read by Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental negotiations on security council Reform and United Arab Emirates Permanent representative to the United Nations, the UNSC hailed efforts made by Somalia,Ethiopia and clan elders to deescalate the tension and their call for cease fire between the worrying factions in Laasanod.
The UNSC also expressed their concerns
about the conditions of a number of people it estimated to be over 150,000 people who have been displaced from their homes by the fighting in the besieged town of Lascanood while conveying condolences to the families who lost their loved ones in the conflict.
The members of the Security Council Aldo called for the withdrawal of the Somaliland troops and urged all the warring parties to exercise restraints.
Fighting has been raging on between Somaliland forces and locals in Lascanood, a city in the northern Somali since February 6 2023 after group of local leaders, civil society groups and religious leaders denounced Somaliland as a government and agitated for their inclusion into the larger Somalia