{"id":11109,"date":"2025-12-30T10:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=11109"},"modified":"2025-12-30T10:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:25:17","slug":"pakistan-slams-israels-recognition-of-somaliland-calls-move-illegal-and-violation-of-somalias-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/asia\/pakistan-slams-israels-recognition-of-somaliland-calls-move-illegal-and-violation-of-somalias-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Slams Israel\u2019s Recognition of \u2018Somaliland\u2019, Calls Move Illegal and Violation of Somalia\u2019s Sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations \u2014Pakistan has issued a strong condemnation of Israel\u2019s unilateral recognition of the <strong>\u201cSomaliland\u201d<\/strong> region as an independent entity, terming the move <em>unlawful, provocative, and a direct attack<\/em> on Somalia\u2019s internationally recognized borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a briefing to the <strong>UN Security Council<\/strong>, Pakistan\u2019s acting Permanent Representative to the United Nations, <strong>Ambassador Usman Jadoon<\/strong>, warned that Israel\u2019s step constitutes a <em>flagrant violation<\/em> of international law and an attempt to undermine the territorial integrity of a sovereign UN member state. He stressed that <strong>Somaliland remains an integral and inseparable part of Somalia<\/strong>, and no foreign power holds the legal or moral authority to alter that reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambassador Jadoon urged the UN Security Council and the wider international community to <strong>speak with one unified voice<\/strong>, rejecting any actions that threaten Somalia\u2019s unity. He called on global actors to prevent the normalization of decisions that rewrite internationally recognized borders through unilateral declarations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan reaffirmed its longstanding support for Somalia\u2019s sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity, reminding the Council that the region\u2019s status is <em>not subject to negotiation through external interference<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations \u2014Pakistan has issued a strong condemnation of Israel\u2019s unilateral recognition of the \u201cSomaliland\u201d region as an independent entity, terming the move unlawful, provocative, and a direct attack on Somalia\u2019s internationally recognized borders. In a briefing to the UN Security Council, Pakistan\u2019s acting Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Usman Jadoon, warned that [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,396,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-latest","category-paksitan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}