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MENAFN- SomTribune)
A Somalia delegation led by Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Salad of Aviation is currently in Montreal, HQ of the International Civil Aviation organization (ICAO), to sign full handover of Somali airspace, including that of the Republic of Somaliland, to his government.
Mr. Salad met with the Secretary General of the organization, Dr. Fang Liu, and a technical team supporting her.
During that meeting, ICAO signed with the visiting delegation an MOU outlining the schedule of transfer of airspace control to Somalia and the transfer of operations from FISS in Nairobi to Mogadishu.
warka universaltv 13 09 2017 According to Minister Salad, the transfer, upgraded training of technical staff and other necessary capacity building to be given the ministry and its staff, which has a component on supply of requisite equipment not presently in the hands of Somalia, will begin as soon as October and would be completed by December 2017.
"The transfer of control and operations to Mogadishu will be effected long before the end of the year," Minister Salad said speaking at the venue where the first of 2 documents was signed on Wednesday, yesterday.
"We already decided to transfer FISS (operations) in Nairobi to Mogadishu," Dr. Liu Said.
This news item was aired on Wednesday by Somali UniversalTV, and on Thursday, 14 September, on the VOA/Somali news cast:
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