UN official calls for peace consolidation mission in Somalia

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Apr 28, 2013
A United Nations official has recommended that an United Nations mission to support the Somali government should be deployed , to help consolidate the country's recent political security achievements.
Outlining the purpose of this mission, Under Secretary-General for Politcal Affairs, Jeffery Feltman, said,
"The new mission represents a fresh start for the UN in Somalia and a renewed commitment by th Council to support Somali-owned peace-building,"
"Its role is to act as an enabler, helping create and galvanaise the political and strategic environment in which stablisation and peace building can proceed."
The United Nations was last actively involved Somalia in the 1990s, and pulled out in 1993 after 18 US soldiers were killed.

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