Somali president speech in Arab Summit

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud addressed the 26th Arab Summit in Egypt's Sharm el Sheikh resort city on Saturday.
Delivering his speech, Mohamoud thanked President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and the Egyptian government and people for their good reception, hospitality, wishing the summit all success.
He pointed out that current challenges facing the Arab nation encourages the Arab countries to boost cooperation and coordination in order to face and surpass the challenges as well as exerting more efforts to achieve the Arab nation’s aspirations.
He asserted that the Palestinian cause is still a crucial issue to the Arab nation, adding that resolving such issue will require working within the framework of the international legitimacy in order to establish an independent Palestinian state with al Quds (East Jerusalem) as its capital.
Meanwhile, the president said that Somalia has overcame the transitional phase as well as the period when the country faced a sectarian conflict, adding that the whole country now is united in the war on terrorism.
He added that the government is working on the political process that aims to approve a constitution and laws regulating the political process as well as holding parliamentary and presidential elections.
The president called all Arab countries to support Somalia via investing in its natural resources by holding strategic partnerships on the public and private sector levels.
Turing to the situation in Yemen, he asserted that his country supports the Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi as well as the Arab countries in their current efforts to protect the legitimate government.
After the president’s speech, Sisi announced that the first session ended and that the second closed session will kick off at 7 p.m.