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"Thank you very much, Mr Carver, because yes indeed, I think that Somaliland does deserve re-recognition. It has been democratic, it has upheld the rule of law and it is a stable polity which has fought piracy and combated Islamist terrorism. So for all those reasons, and the historical fact that it was once a British protectorate called British Somaliland and is entitled under the UN Charter and traditions to be an independent state, there is a very strong case to be made.
But of course the debate today is not about Somaliland per se, although that is dear to my heart. The debate today is about what is happening in Yemen, and there has been, of course, a humanitarian crisis and disaster, as I have said in my speech, and many of the refugees have fled across the Gulf of Aden to Somaliland, to the port of Berbera, where I know the government in Hargeisa are doing their utmost possible to rehouse and accommodate this influx of refugees. But yes, thank you to the Government of Somaliland for doing that."@en1
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