Somalia thanks Qatar for civil aviation aid

Photo/Associated Pres/A Somali civil aviation official says at least 15 Qatar Airways flights have used Somalia’s airspace since Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations moved to sever links with the Gulf nation.




Ambassador of Qatar to Somalia, Hassan bin Hamza Hashem, handed over the shipment to the Director-General of the Somali Civil Aviation Authority Ahmed Moallim Hassan.

Qatar has provided Somalia with computers, printers and radio devices as a gift from Qatar’s Civil Aviation Authority to its Somali counterpart. Ambassador of Qatar to Somalia, Hassan bin Hamza Hashem, handed over the shipment to the Director-General of the Somali Civil Aviation Authority Ahmed Moallim Hassan.

The handover ceremony was attended by Somali Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Mohamed Abdullahi Salat, MPs and officials of the Civil Aviation Authority, in addition to representatives from the United Nations Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS), the African Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM), as well as International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), and the Turkish FAVORI LLC, the company managing Mogadishu Aden Adde International Airport.




The Somali minister of transport and civil aviation thanked Qatar’s continues support for the Somali government and people in all fields, expressing his gratefulness for supporting the Somali Civil Aviation Authority. For his part, the Director-General of the Somali Civil Aviation Authority thanked Qatar for supporting the Somali Civil Aviation Authority with the valuable technical equipment.

He also indicated that the Qatari support would be for the entire of Somalia not only the capital Mogadishu, and that they are going to distribute to all of the country’s airports.

Source: Gulf Times