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Somalia: Protest against the writings for the masters of deceit
Tuesday 20 October 2009 SMC
Somalis protest against PANA and a French website for perfidious media spin
Mogadishu - 20.October 2009 - "I am challenging those responsible for the PanAfrican News Agency PANA, the author, the French news website AfriqueEnLigne as well as any governmental official in the Libyan government to come publicly forward and declare any bit of truth in the malicious report spread by PANA about the rights concerning the Somali Seas," stated Somalia's Special Envoy for Anti-Piracy in Mogadishu today.
Reason for the outrage of the envoy and Somalis worldwide is an obviously repeated attempt to strip Somalia of its maritime rights - this time with a perfidious spin quoting an unnamed Somali delegation as well as unnamed Libyan officials, who allegedly but unproven were advised by Libyan strongman Colonel Gaddafi that Somalia should "draw up an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)" for its waters.
"The revolutionary leader and principal of the African Union (AU) Mu‘ammar al-Qaddafi knows very well that Somalia has by law since 1972 its territorial waters of 200 nautical miles (nm) from the coast, except in the Gulf of Aden where the narrow waters are split between Somalia and Yemen - and when the United Nations in a certain way followed this example and allowed for all coastal states to have an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of 200 nm through the United Nations Common Law on the Sea (UNCLOS), Somalia became one of its first signatories and ratified UNCLOS on July 24 1989. But this does not mean that Somalia gives up its territorial seas. It means that other countries, who ratified the UNCLOS convention, even if they would not like to respect the 200 nm of the Somali territorial seas have to respect the 200 nm EEZ of Somalia." stated Ismail Haji Noor and added: "Also the AU stands there fully on the side of Somalia and after UNCLOS came into force, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) declared already in Maputo - during the Pan-African Conference in July 1998 - that all nations have to specifically respect the vulnerable 200 nm EEZ of Somalia. This went in line with the Abidjan and Nairobi Conventions as well as the Maputo and Cape Town declarations and does not leave any room for malicious misinterpretations. If the UN has lost the charts of the 200 nm EEZ of Somalia, I am sure they can be found. Even the South-Western Indian Ocean Agreement respects the 200 nm EEZ of Somalia and there even Europeans countries, who still have possessions in the Indian Ocean realm are signatories too."
Just recently even the French President Nicolas Sarcozy had to declare to the African Union leader that France would respect the 200 nm zone concerning the waters off Somalia.
"The perfidies in the article disseminated by PANA sum up in the attempt to again and further lure Somalia into a trap through a back-door," Mr. Noor says and explains that since years the International Maritime Organization (IMO) of the UN, other UN organizations, the Americans and the Europeans want that Somalia scraps its legal claim of 200 nm territorial waters and in addition by being entrapped into a renewed declaration concerning its EEZ would loose all the claims, which Somalia has against the countries and groups of organized crime, who violated the laws, fished illegally in Somali waters and dumped toxic and nuclear waste during the last 20 years, because Somalia with a new declaration of an EEZ today would automatically say that there would not have been an EEZ declared before. "We are not going to do this, because Somalia automatically claimed the 200nm EEZ with its ratification of UNCLOS and we believe that justice must prevail and those who committed these crimes against the Somali people and the Somali nation must be prosecuted," Mr. Noor said and he warned that all who pretend to be Somali officials and sign away the rights of Somalia as well as all so called delegations from Somalia, who were not officially appointed with the consent of parliament will have to face the full force of the Somali laws and the righteous brunt from the Somali lawmakers.
"Somalia has 200 nm territorial seas and other countries must respect also the 200 nm EEZ as well as the 350 nm zone according to the continental shelf agreement - if they like it or not", the envoy declared.
Somali was the first African state submitting its claim and well before May 13 2009 - the deadline set by the International Seabed Authority.
“We know that especially the U.S. Americans, who have not even ratified UNCLOS, want to snoop around the coasts of all states unhindered and do wherever they want to do, but also other states have realized that and it will not be long until the U.S.-Americans will have to face the common stand of all nations expressing that even the mighty US has to respect the sovereignty of other nations - be it on land or on the sea,” the Somali envoy predicted.
"With the international interference over the last 20 years and the easy corruption of our impoverished people as well as the misguidance of our youth from the outside, Somalia has been devastated. So, if you are not prepared to really help us, which means to stand on our side and assist us in what we know is best for us, then please stay away and stay away from our land as well as from our waters", Noor closed.
The protest is based on the following PANA article:
Libya: Kadhafi receives Somali maritime organisation delegation - Tripoli - 19/10/2009 - Pana
Libyan revolutionary leader, Mouammar Kadhafi, on Monday advised civilian organisations controlling Somali coasts to draw up an agreement on the Somali Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) to protect their country's maritime riches.
A Libyan official said Kadhafi told them that the agreement should be based on the Law of the Sea, which stipulates that economic waters belong to coastal countries.
The Libyan leader was speaking when a delegation of the civilian organisations controlling the Somali coasts called on him on Monday in Tripoli.
This zone, he said, stretches over 320 kilometres, adding that all the riches in that zone are the property of the coastal country and that nobody has the right to touch this maritime wealth unless so authorised by an agreement between the country to which the EEZ belongs and the party wishing to fish and invest in it.
Kadhafi, who is the current Chairman of the African Union, also advised the Somali delegation to present the draft agreement to all groups in Somalia to discuss it and to add their demands concerning the protection of this economic zone and its riches.
He promised that Libya would assist in any possible way in drafting the agreement in line with international law of the sea and stressed the need for Somali groups to comply with this agreement.
The Somali delegation called on Kadhafi to thank him for his speech at the just-ended UN General Assembly on the protection of the EEZ off their coasts and to face up to the plundering of the riches of that zone.
The delegation told the Libyan leader that their country was facing an aggressive attack launched by the capitalist companies of Western countries and others which plundered their country's maritime riches. They were also pouring industrial waste produced by their factories into the sea off Somali coasts.
"The Somali people and freedom-loving peoples, are happy to see a brother defend us and make our voice heard worldwide," on official of the delegation declared.
'This brother (Kadhafi) is prepared to make sacrifices on behalf of the underprivileged and oppressed throughout the various regions of the world.'
Piracy off the Somali coast has been a threat to international shipping since the beginning of the Somali civil war in the early 1990s.
Since 2005, many international organisations, including the International Maritime Organisation and the World Food Programme of the United Nations, have expressed concern over the rise in acts of piracy.
Piracy has contributed to an increase in shipping costs and impeded the delivery of food aid shipments.
Published i.a. at: Afrique en ligne http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/libya:-kadhafi-receives-somali-maritime-organisation-delegation-2009102036661.html
Mohammed Omar Hussein+2521-5519235 shiinetown@hotmail.com
Somaliweyn Media Center “SMC”
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