Security Council on Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia, February 27, 2009/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Daily press briefing by the office of the spokesperson for the UN secretary-general
Yesterday afternoon, the Security Council President, Ambassador Yukio Takasu of Japan, read out a press statement on the Council’s behalf condemning in the strongest terms the attack on the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) base in Mogadishu over the weekend.
Council members, he said, reiterated their commitment to support a strengthened AMISOM. They also welcomed the ongoing political process in Somalia that led to the expansion of Parliament and the election of a new President, and they called on all Somalis to reject violence and extremism.
SOURCE : United Nations – Office of the Spokesperson of the Secretary-General
