MIDDLE EAST AFRICA SOUTH ASIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00865A001600020002-2
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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 18, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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August 18, 1975
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MIDDLE EAST - AFRICA - SOUTH ASIA
This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington com-
munity by the Middle East - Africa Division, Office of Current Intelligence,
with occasional contributions from other offices within the Directorate of
Intelligence. Comments and queries are welcome. They should be directed to
the authors of the individual articles.
Somalia-Arab States: The Honeymoon is
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Somalia - Arab States
The Honeymoon is Over
Somalia's relations with the Arab world, which
had been growing closer last year, are likely to
become increasingly cool.
The steady deterioration in relations is due
in part to Somalia's bitterness over the postpone-
ment of the Arab summit conference, which was to have
been held in Mogadiscio last June. President Siad,
who has gone to great lengths to portray the Hamitic
Somalis as Arab, felt deeply humiliated when the
scheduled meeting did not materialize. In a cable
sent to all Arab heads of state, Siad complained
that the postponement was an illegal attempt by
certain Arab states to change the venue of the meeting.
Siad is also dissatisfied with what he considers
to be Arab attempts to meddle in internal Somali
affairs. Saudi Arabia, for example, has made its
promises of financial assistance to the economically
hard-pressed Somalis contingent on a loosening of
Somalia's ties with the Soviet Union and a modifica-
tion of its socialist domestic policies. Only a
Libyan payment of $10 million apps to have been
made of the $103 million promised to the Somalis
for drought relief at the 1974 Arab summit in Rabat.
Arab diplomats in Mogadiscio see the Soviets
behind the change in Somalian attitude. They believe
that Soviet advisers in various levels of the Somali
government are influencing the Somalis to criticize
Cairo's peace-seeking activities toward Israel and
to root out what influence Egypt still exerts in the
country. (CONFIDENTIAL)
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