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Article: AFRICAN UNION, BRIEFING SECURITY COUNCIL ON SOMALIA, APPEALS FOR URGENT STEPS TO DEPLOY UN PEACEKEEPING FORCE TO REPLACE UNION'S MISSION
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- February 15, 2008
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The United Nations issued the following press release:
The representative of the African Union this morning conveyed to the Security Council her organization's solemn appeal for urgent action to deploy a United Nations peacekeeping operation in Somalia, which would replace the African Union's mission there, to help long-term stabilization and the rebuilding of Somalia.
Briefing the Council on the situation in Somalia, Lila H. Ratsifandrihamanana, Permanent Observer of the African Union, said that it was a cause of shared concern. During the last Summit in Addis Ababa, the Assembly of the African Union had endorsed the proposals of the Peace and Security Council in its communiqué of 18 ...