arms embargo latest: 15 security council nations agree..

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Somalia oo laga qaadayo cunaqabateynta hubka

29 Nov 29, 2006, 10:24

 

Dowladaha China iyo Rusia ayaa tageeray qorshaha dowladda Mareykanka ay soo hordhigtay Golaha Amaanka oo ku baaqaya in ciidamo nabad ilaalin ah loo diro dalka Somalia si ay u garab siiyaan xukumadda fadhigeedu yahay Baydhabo.

 

Xubnaha Golaha Amaanka ayaa caawa lagu wadaa in ay fariistan kana hadlaan qorshaha Maraykanka uu soo hordhigay QM, iyadoo saadaasha la sameynaya ay u badan tahay in Golaha Amaanka uu qaado cuna qabateynta hubka ee saaran Somalia.

 

Mareykanka ayaa helay taageero badan kadib markii uu kala hadlay arintaasi dalal dhowr ah, dowladaha adeegsada codka diidmada qayaxan ayaa inta badan sheegay ineysan u adeegsan doonin codkooda diidmada ah, iyadoo dalalka China iyo Rusia ay yihiin dalalkii ugu danbeeyay oo aqbalay qaraarka Mareykanka ku doonayo in Somalia laga qaado cunaqabateynta hubka ee saaran Somalia.

 

Cali Muxayadiin Cali, Garowe Online

[General Duke]

BEIJING/MOSCOW: Dowladaha Shiinaha iyo Ruushka oo taageeray Qorshaha Mareykanka uu horkeenay Qarmamada Midoobay

 

Posted to the Web Nov 29, 12:22

 

Beijing/Moscow (PP) - Dowladaha Shiinaha iyo Ruushka ayaa si cad u sheegay inay taageersan yihiin qorsha cusub ee uu Mareykanka soo hordhigay golaha Ammaanka ee Qarammada Midoobay.

 

Labadan dowladooda oo aan wax hadal ah horay uga dhihin hindisha cusub ee uu watto Mareykanka ayaa ku soo beegay ka hadalkooda maanta oo Arbaco ah isla markaana ah maalinta 1-aad ee ay golaha Ammaanka QM ka doodayaan ka qaadista Cunnoqabateynta hubka ee Soomaaliya.

 

Wararka ayaa waxay sheegayaan in labadan dowladooda ay ahaayeen kuwa keliya ee uu Mareykanku cabsi ka qabay inay ka horyimaadaan, balse waxaa caddaatay in labadan Dowladooda ay ogolaadeen qorshaha Mareykanka, qorshaha uu u muuqdo mid hirgalaya.

 

Dowladaha Faransiiska, England iyo kuwo kale oo ka tirsan 15-dowladood ee xubnaha ka ah golaha Ammaanka ee UN-ka ayaa waxay horay u sheegeen inay taageersan yihiin qorshaha uu wado Mareykanka ee lagu qaadayo cunnoqabateynta hubka isla markaana lagu geynayo gudaha Soomaaliya ciidammo nabad ilaalin ah oo taageera Dowladda Federaalka Soomaaliya.

 

Xubnaha Golaha Ammaanka ee Qarammada Midoobay ayaa lagu wadaa inay caawa go'aan kama dambeys ah ka gaaraan qorshaha uu wato Mareykanka, oo u ciiraya dhanka Ansixinta in ciidammo nabad ilaalin ah la geeyo Somalia, cunno-qabteynta hubkana laga qaado.

 

Maxamed Xuseen Jantiile

Wakiilka Puntlandpost - Mogadishu

E-mail: puntlandpostmog@hotmail.com

[General Duke]

 

interview with deputy ambasador to UN..

[Abwaan]

Website-ka wax soo waraystay ma Idamaalaa? Ninka la waraystayna ma Ciid baa?

 

Sheekooy ku nacay!

[Somali_Friend]

I would hate to be France at this moment. When you see the Chinese and Russians who both probably would send peacekeepers and technical assistance to somalia before any other major powers pre-empting EU where France and Germany have some voice, the world has changed.

Yemen must be the one that convinced US that the TFG must be helped otherwise the international community can expect 3 or 4 reps for UN from "old" somalia.

 

TFG of course had already China and Russia on side.

[Juje]

Originally posted by Abwaan:

Website-ka wax soo waraystay ma Idamaalaa? Ninka la waraystayna ma Ciid baa?

 

Sheekooy ku nacay!

You forgot to add, ninka so postgareyay ma Duke ba, ninka lo dadalayo ma C/llahi Yusuf ba?

What is the link?

Bilabi ogaa weli meysan hana qadiin be.

[Abwaan]

Juje...loooool.......Sxb waa iga qoslisey!!!

[Juje]

Ehem...!

 

Am still waiting for a resolution which lifts the embargo.

I think they still might voting in the Security Council.

[General Duke]

^^^Umm are you sure you already for the news lads from Clan Courts area & their occupied territories [Juje]

 

US seeks UN backing for Somalia peacekeeping force

Posted to the Web Dec 01, 21:20

 

 

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The United States will endorse African peacekeepers to help prop up Somalia's shaky interim government in a draft resolution to be unveiled on Friday, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said.

 

 

Washington's draft would also ease a widely ignored 14-year-old U.N. arms embargo on Somalia to enable the peacekeepers to legally bring in arms and train and equip local security forces, he said.

 

 

With widespread instability and the interim government under pressure from Islamists, "what we want to do is endorse the insertion of this regional peacekeeping force which many of the African states have called for, in order to provide some measure of stability there, to permit a political solution," Bolton told reporters.

 

 

The Islamists have been steadily expanding their reach and influence in Somalia after seizing the capital of Mogadishu in June. The United States says they are harboring al Qaeda operatives who pose a threat in the region and elsewhere.

 

 

Washington earlier backed a coalition of warlords in its effort to counter the Islamists' growing influence in the Horn of Africa nation, which has been in chaos, without a central government, since 1991.

 

.............Reuters............

[General Duke]

Juje, Idamaale interview was spot on...

Maybe reuters was not enough for you, well here is more..

 

US Asks UN Backing For Somalia Peace Mission

By Peter Heinlein

United Nations

December 2006

 

The United States is asking the U.N. Security Council to prop up Somalia's weak transitional government. VOA's Peter Heinlein has details from U.N. headquarters in New York.

 

U.S. diplomats distributed a draft Security Council resolution Friday that would authorize a regional force to support Somalia's transitional federal institutions based in Baidoa, 250 kilometes northwest of the capital, Mogadishu. The measure would allow a partial lifting of a 1992 arms embargo that is has largely failed to keep weapons out of the Horn of Africa nation.

 

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton says the resolution envisions an eight-thousand strong peacekeeping mission staffed by the seven-nation African regional group. He says mission is designed to provide stability to the transitional government in the face of strong pressure from Islamists who control Mogadishu.

 

"The transitional federal government is under pressure from Islamic Courts Union and the stability, such as it is, is in grave peril and what we want to do is introduce this regional peacekeeping force, endorse insertion of regional peacekeeping force which many of the African states have called for in order to provide a measure of stability there," he said.

 

Deployment of the force is fiercely opposed by the Islamic Courts Union, which captured Mogadishu last June, then took control of much of the south and central parts of Somalia. They have imposed Sharia law in the areas they control.

 

The draft introduced Friday calls on the Islamic Courts Union to halt further expansion and reject people with an extremist agenda or links to international terrorism.

 

The United States has said the Islamists are harboring Al Qaeda fighters who use the lawless region as a base of operations, spreading terror to other areas.

 

The African Union and regional groups have long been pushing for a Northeast African peacekeeping force to uphold the transitional government. But news of a possible resolution has raised concerns among some Europeans that it could further destabilize the region and lead to all-out war.

 

Earlier in the week, the Council adopted a resolution submitted by Qatar that calls on Secretary-General Kofi Annan to extend the life of a panel of independent experts who have the job of monitoring enforcement of the arms embargo.

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U.S. Calls for Regional Somalia Force

washington post website

 

 

By EDITH M. LEDERER

The Associated Press

Friday, December 1, 2006; 8:24 PM

 

UNITED NATIONS -- The United States circulated a U.N. Security Council draft resolution Friday that would authorize a regional force to protect Somalia's weak government and threaten Security Council action against those who block peace efforts and attempt to overthrow it.

 

The draft, obtained by The Associated Press, would lift a 1992 arms embargo against Somalia so that troops in the "protection and training mission" could be militarily equipped.

 

 

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[General Duke]

New-York Times..

 

U.S. Proposing Regional Force to Monitor Somalia Violence

 

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By WARREN HOGE

 

Published: December 2, 2006

 

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 1 — The United States circulated a draft resolution on Somalia on Friday, urging a regional peacekeeping force to monitor a struggle for control between the country’s embattled government and its powerful Islamist foes, and calling for a partial lifting of an arms embargo to enable the equipping of local security units.

 

The 8,000-member force would come from seven East African nations but not from neighboring states of Kenya, Djibouti and Ethiopia. This restriction was added out of concern that the proposed United Nations move, aimed at calming tensions, might end up provoking wider hostilities.

 

The International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based study group with expertise in the area, raised alarm this week by predicting that deploying a force, particularly one that included soldiers from neighboring countries, “could trigger all-out war in Somalia and destablize the entire Horn of Africa region.”

 

John R. Bolton, the American ambassador, expressed annoyance with this view. “You know, people criticize us when we take action on the ground, that our taking action makes the situation worse,” he said. “O.K., so what is the answer, not to take action?”

 

He said, “What we want to do is endorse the insertion of the regional peacekeeping force, which many of the African states have called for, in order to provide some measure of stability there to permit a political solution.”

 

Somalia has not had an effective government since 1991, when warlords overthrew the president and then turned on each other.

 

The interim government, formed two years ago and supported by the United Nations, controls only Baidoa, the provincial town where it is headquartered, while the Islamic alliance, known as the Union of Islamic Courts, has taken over Mogadishu, the capital, and increased its grip on the rest of the country.

 

Ethiopia supports the interim government and has sent troops into the country. Washington earlier backed a coalition of warlords to try to combat the Islamists, who the United States believed harbored terrorists.

 

The draft urged the Islamists to “cease any further military expansion and reject those with an extremist agenda or links with international terrorism.” It noted the Security Council’s willingness “to engage with all parties in Somalia, including the Union of Islamic Courts, if they are committed to achieving a political settlement through peaceful and inclusive dialogue.”

 

There is fear that Ethiopia and Eritrea, which are in a tense faceoff over their disputed border, are fighting a proxy war in Somalia. Eritrea also would most likely be barred from participating in the peacekeeping force under the resolution.

 

The United Nations arms embargo on Somalia, which has been notoriously porous, began in 1992.

 

Mr. Bolton said that the text would be circulated to various capitals over the weekend, and that he hoped that reactions could start to be incorporated into the document at drafters’ meetings beginning Monday. “And then we’ll proceed as rapidly as we can after that,” he said.

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john bolton..

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Somalia oo xayiraada hubka laga qaadi doono

2 Dec 2, 2006, 11:10

 

Dowlada Maraykanka ayaa qaraar cunaqabateynta hubka looga qaadayo dalka Somaliya soo hordhigi doonta Golaha Amaanka asbuuca fooda nagu soo haya.

 

Qoraal hordhac ah oo Marykanka oo ku wareejiyay xubnaha 15-ka ah ee ku jira golaha Amaanka ayaa digniin culus u diraya cid walba oo is-hortaagta xal u helida mushkilada Somalia isla markaana isku dayda in ay af-gambido DFKMG ah oo fadhigeedu yahay magaalada Baydhabo.

 

Ka qaadida cunaqabateynta hubka oo Somalia la saaray 1992 ayaa saamaxaysa in wadanka ay soo galaan ciidamo ka socda wadamada Africa kuwaa oo tababar iyo ilaalin siin doona DFKMG ah.

 

Wadamada dariska la ah Somalia ayaa haba yaraatee ka qayb qaadan doonin howl-galkan Milatri sida ay codsadeen wadamada la filayo in ay soo diraan ciidamada nabad ilaalineed.

 

Wadamada qaraarkanu ka mamnuucayo in ciidamadooda ay u soo diraan Somalia ayaa waxa kala yihiin: Ethiopia, Djibouti iyo Kenya.

 

Dowlada Uganda ayaa ilaa hada ku deeqaday in ciidamo u soo diri doonto Somalia inkasta oo qaraarkan uusan ka hor-isaatgeyn wadamada kale ee IGAD oo aysan ku jirin kuwa xuduuda la leh Somalia ay ka qayb qaadan karaan qorshahaan.

 

Diplomasiyiin reer Galbeed ayaa sheegay in ciidamada nabad ilaalinta tiradooda noqon doonto sideed batalyan iyada oo mid walba ay ka koobnaan doonto 800 boqol oo askari.

 

"Waxa u ahaan doonaa howl- gal aad u xadidan" sidaa waxaa yiri safiirka wadanka Ingriiska u fadhiya QM Emyr Jones Parry. "Xaalada Somalia... waa mid aad u adag una cakiran, ma ahaan doonto xalinteeda mid sahlan mana noqon doonto mid lagu xaliyo faragalin Militari oo dibada ka timaada".

 

Safiirka QM u fadhiya dowlada Maraykanka ayaa sheegay "DFKMG ah ay ku sugan tahay xaalad nabad galyo oo aad u qalafsan isla markaana khatar galin karta xasiloonida gobolka oo dhan".

 

Bolton oo hadalkiisa sii wata ayaa yiri "Waxaan rabnaa in aan ciidamo nabad ilaalineed u dirno Somalia sida ay horay ugu taliyeen wadamo badan oo African ah si loo helo xasilooni suurta galisa in xal siyaasdeed laga gaaro xaalada Somalia".

 

Afhayeen u hadley DFKMG ah ayaa soo dhoweeyay qaraarka Maraykanka soo hordhigi doono QM asbuuca soo socada.

 

Garowe Online+ Wakaaladaha

[General Duke]

U.S. Submits U.N. Resolution on Regional Force for Somalia

Proposal aimed to prevent further bloodshed, U.S. ambassador says

 

By Judy Aita

USINFO United Nations Correspondent

 

United Nations -- The United States has presented to the Security Council a draft resolution that would send regional peacekeeping troops to Somalia to help bring stability to the country.

 

"The resolution will call for endorsing the efforts of IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development) states and the African Union to deploy a peacekeeping force in Somalia and support a partial lifting of the arms embargo for the purpose of assisting the force and associated training," U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton told journalists December 1.

 

Bolton gave the draft text to the delegations of the other 14 members of the Security Council so that they could consult with their capitals and begin discussions on December 4. "Then we'll proceed as rapidly as we can after that," he said.

 

"What we want to do is introduce this regional peacekeeping force … which many of the African states have called for, in order to provide some measure of stability there to permit a political solution," Bolton said. (See related article.)

 

The United States is making the proposal, the ambassador said, "in the interest of preventing further hostilities and associated displacement of persons and loss of life."

 

IGAD, which is chaired by Kenya, has proposed with the African Union to deploy a training and protection mission to stabilize security and help create conditions for talks between the U.N.-Backed Transitional Federal Institutions (TFI) now headquartered in Baidoa and the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) movement which controls much of the country.

 

The resolution "is a step toward resolving" a very complicated situation, Bolton said. "We don't pretend to say that this resolution alone will be a complete solution. A lot more work remains to be done."

 

The draft resolution lifts the 1992 arms embargo in order to equip and train the peacekeeping troops. It emphasizes the council's willingness to engage with all parties in Somalia if they are committed to achieving a political settlement through peaceful and inclusive dialogue.

 

The U.S. draft bans the countries neighboring Somalia from sending soldiers. It also warns that the council would consider taking measures against those who prevent or block a peace process, overthrow the transitional government by force, or take action that would further threaten regional stability.

 

The resolution was submitted just days after the Security Council continued for another six months the monitoring group which investigates violations of the arms embargo. The group named ten countries that have violated the embargo by providing weapons, ammunition, equipment and other supplies, or training.

 

For more information, see Africa.