Security Council members welcome efforts to promote reconciliation in Somalia
26 October -- Members of the Security Council have welcomed the efforts of the transitional Government of Somalia to promote national reconciliation in the country.
In a press statement issued Wednesday evening after closed-door consultations on the political and humanitarian situation in Somalia, Council members "encouraged the participation of all parties with the new transitional Government towards this end."
The transitional Government took power in late August after Abdiqassin Salad Hassan was elected President by members of the Transitional National Assembly, which represents a wide spectrum of Somali society.
At the time, Secretary-General Kofi Annan described President Hassan's inauguration as an "important milestone" in the efforts of the Somali people to re-establish their country as a member of the community of nations, through an inclusive, consultative process.
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