Press Release: Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on Somalia

The EU welcomes the significant progress that has been made in the political process in Somalia since the beginning of 2008. It reaffirms its full support to the transitional federal authorities for the action taken by the Transitional Federal Government and to the reconciliation strategy by Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein that has made it possible to start a dialogue with all Somali parties, internal as well as external, and to launch a true reconciliation process.