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Somalia’s Minister of Defence, Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur, today held a special meeting with the new British Ambassador to Somalia, Mr. Michael Nithavrianakis.
The Minister and the Ambassador exchanged issues on defense and security cooperation between Somalia and the United Kingdom.
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The Minister of Defense of Somalia also warmly welcomed Ambassador Michael who was recently appointed as the head of the UK Embassy in Mogadishu, according to sources Somali officials told Somali Times Minister of Defence, Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur is a former member of Al-Shabab terrorist groups based in Somalia.
The British government is one of the governments that support the recovery of Somalia’s government. One of the aspects that the UK supports in Somalia is the construction of the national army, and the UK has one of the training bases for the Somali army in the city of Baidoa in the Bay region.
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The British government is at the forefront of supporting Somalia’s government in the fight against Al-Shabab, the building of the national army and social development.
Mr. Michael Nithavrianakis was recently appointed as the UK’s new ambassador to Somalia and Somalia’s Minister of Defense asked the ambassador to speed up the UK’s support to Somalia.