Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with colleagues from Ethiopia and Somalia in New York.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the social network X notes that Fidan held separate meetings with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia Taye Askiye and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Somali Ahmed Moalim fics in New York.
The meetings took place in the “Turkish house”.
The agency continues to look for balanced, feasible and mutually beneficial solutions to reduce tension between the two countries based on the “Ankar process”.
Turkeev. The report noted that the ministry continues to look for balanced, feasible and mutually beneficial solutions to reduce tension between the two countries as part of the “Ankar process”.
Conflict between Ethiopia and Somalia
Ethiopia is a country with the largest population in a world that does not have access to the sea. After the actual separation of Eritrea from Ethiopia in 1991 and obtaining legal independence in 1993, Ethiopia lost access to the sea. For economic reasons, Ethiopia retained the issue of access to the Red Sea by relevant. On January 1, Ethiopia signed a memorandum of understanding with Somaliland, which caused serious protests from Somali and the international community due to the promise to recognize Somaliland.
The head of Somaliland Musa Bihi Abdi said that Ethiopia recognizes their “independence” with the completion of the agreement. In response to the agreement between Ethiopia and Somaliland, the Somali government withdrew its ambassador from Ethiopia.
The League of the Arab states (LAG) and the African Union condemned the agreement on the access to the sea between Ethiopia and Somaliland, which “opens the way to the construction of the military base and the development of the port on the Red Sea”.
Foreign Ministers of Ethiopia and Somalia met on March 9-10 in Nairobi to search for a decision of the crisis, but the result of indirect negotiations between the two countries was not achieved.
The parties were met twice in Ankara through the mediation of Turkey as part of negotiations known as the “Ankar process.”