Somalia: UN Official - 'UN Office Will Be Reopened in Mogadishu'

12 November 2009
Hassan Osman Abdi

Abdukadir Mohamed Walayo, the spokesman of the transitional government PM has said that a United Nations office will be reopened in Mogadishu, just as the deputy representative of the UN secretary General for Somalia Charles Petrie visited the capital on Thursday.

Mr. Walayo told reporters in the capital that Charles Petrie, the deputy representative of the UN secretary General for Somalia had arrived in Mogadishu saying that he pledged that the UN office in Somalia will be reopened in the capital.

The spokesman said that the official took part the meeting of the transitional cabinet which took place in Mogadishu today and led by the Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharma'arke adding that Mr. Charles Patria said he would be appointed as a high official of the UN Security Council for the Somalia.

Walayo said that the UN official also said that the international contact group for Somalia and the UN Security Council will hold meeting on Somali affairs recently to reach solution for quickening the contribution money which the international community pledged for Somalia in Brussels conference as soon as possible.

The statement of the United Nations for reopening its office in Somalia follows as the deputy UN secretary General Grey Star visited in Mogadishu recently and said that he surveyed the general security situation of Somalia.

Source: allAfrica.
Link: http://allafrica.com/stories/200911120953.html.