Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 21 November 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what his policy is on the application of Somaliland for observer status in the Commonwealth of Nations.
While the UK acknowledges Somaliland's aspirations for independence, Somaliland is not recognised as an independent sovereign state. The only category of membership in the Commonwealth is that of a sovereign state as full member. In 2007 Commonwealth Heads of Government endorsed the recommendation of the Commonwealth Committee on Membership not to establish observer status.
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