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Iran, Senegal Resume Diplomatic Ties: Report
Thursday, 07 February 2013 13:54
(AFP) – Iran and Senegal have resumed diplomatic ties severed two years ago after Dakar accused Tehran of supplying
weapons to its separatist rebels, the ISNA news agency reported on Thursday."The declaration for the restart of political ties between Iran and Senegal was signed by the two foreign ministers on the sidelines" of the ongoing Organisation of Islamic Cooperation meeting in Cairo, ISNA reported citing an official statement.
The statement said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Senegalese counterpart Macky Sall also discussed bilateral ties, and added that both countries agreed to re-open embassies in their respective capitals as of February 6.
It was not immediately known whether the embassies had resumed operations.
Macky SallSenegal officially cut diplomatic ties with Iran in February 2011, accusing it of delivering weapons to separatist rebels in its restive southern Casamance region where 16 soldiers were killed by the end of December 2010.
The separatist rebels are known to have bases in Gambia, which cut diplomatic ties with Iran soon after the incident.
In a meeting with former Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade in January 2011, Iran's then interim foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi admitted that Tehran had "delivered significant batches of weapons to Gambia several times."
"The consignment seized in October 2010 in Nigeria contained weapons and was also destined for Gambia" Salehi said.
Iran is under various sets of international sanctions over its disputed nuclear programme, including a ban on arms sales imposed by the United Nations.
The West fears Iran is trying to develop atomic weapons under cover of a civilian nuclear programme. Iran denies the charge, saying its nuclear work is for peaceful purposes.
Wade, defeated by Sall in March 2012 presidential election, had repeatedly stated its support for Iran's nuclear programme.
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Any black man who becomes Muslim but fails to read what the Koran says about his own people dishonors himself and the whole of the black race, and furthermore helps devalue the pain of 1000 years of Arab slavery that continues to the present day.
Islam is already destroying Africa and will destroy the west too. If a black man accepts Islam, he does black people an injustice because his life is based on a fantasy invented by the very people who enslaved us. We are warned.
Should we abandon our beautiful AFRICAN HERITAGE for enslaving our own people? Look beyond 5000 years of history and see who was enslaving our people. If you are raised in Africa you should be able to remember how your people told your royal roots, it is superior to the other group. Who are the other group you now call brothers? Same brothers you believe were lower. A perfect group today was not so perfect yesterday. It is a working progress.
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different policies from different bodies can undermine one another and that`s what i see in this case.
Thanks
Wow..u make me think about the great Bilal..was he treated equally..interms of inheritance, hierachy etc, from the founding of Islam..
Islam is already destroying Africa and will destroy the west too. If a black man accepts Islam, he does black people an injustice because his life is based on a fantasy invented by the very people who enslaved us. We are warned.
"No retreat no surrender?"
You are my "Marabour", you show me the way where there is no barrier to stop the gear.
Good night!!
When you put a car in first gear...it should never go backwards.
This is why, the decision of your government(inde pendent body)to train a dictator`s army may undermine the EU-17ps from EU(another independent body).
Whether powers are decentralise in Britain/EU or not, the fact is,different policies from different bodies cannot undermine one another and that`s what i see in this case.
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Britain is not a totalitarian government where power is drawn to the centre.
Each facit works independantly. Therefore it is not unusual for differnt policy enforcers work on different international levels.
The EU 17 point....would of course be separate from any mutual interest in security.
Good Night my friend...Sleep well.
Infact my point was not about the terrorits,islam ist or whatever you may labell them in Mali,you brought in the terrorist,even dictator jammeh`s regime didn`t mention the word "terriost"in their press release,they know why.
My point was/is that, your government`s action to support dictator jammeh militarily is some how undermining the EU-17ps and i was only surprised that you see it otherwise.
It is our responsibility to dismantle dictator jammeh/the dictatorship in the Gambia but i don`t think equiping/training that dictator militarily is helping.
Good night!
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