Puntland denies the peace talks with Somaliland

The Puntland administration denied the statement from Somaliland foreign minister has announced this morning that the Somaliland administration will have a peace talks with Puntland to discuss over the issue of Sool region.

The Puntland government’s information minister, Abdullahi Jama Koran, said that the statement made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somaliland is not true, and that Puntland is not ready to have peace talks and that we are committed to rule the Sool region under the puntland administration.

“I heard this news from the Somaliland foreign minister Sacad Ali Shire who is playing political tricks that Puntland has accepted the peace talks which we are not even aware of. Laascan and Sool region to liberate from the enemies is on our constitution, and if the regions were under the admistration of Somaliland for the last years does mean that regions are part of Somaliland” he said.

Koran “said that there will be no issue of peace talks in the area currently, because Sool region belongs to Puntland and we are ready to defend our territory.

There is no formal effort of mediation between the two sides currently after the President of the federal government of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo and the United Nations Representative to Somalia Michael Keating have  failed to end the disputes.

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