This is to deny H.E. Mohamed Ibrahim Egal’s statement that
President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed of PUNTLAND STATE OF SOMALIA stopped over in Hargeisa on
his way home from a recent visit to Ethiopia.
Abdullahi Yusuf and members of his delegation were onboard a
direct flight from Addis Ababa to Galka’yo. This does not mean that Abdullahi Yusuf
and members of Puntland Government has any reservations to visit their brothers and
sisters in Somaliland as there is no doubt that H.E. Egal and members of his
administration are most welcome in PUNTLAND STATE OF SOMALIA.
Today’s
report from Hargeisa, however, on Abdullahi Yusuf’s stop-over in Hargeisa recently
was truly a surprise to us as it was unfounded. This is to set the record straight.
Ismail Haji Warsame
Director-General/Office of the President