Somalia: UN takes part in new effort to improve security
25 July 2009 – The United Nations has taken part in the first meeting of a new joint initiative in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, that aims to boost security and safety across the war-torn country.
The Joint Security Committee, comprising representatives of the UN Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS), the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the international community, met today, according to a communiqué issued after the meeting.
TFG participants in the committee include the ministers of defence, national security and interior, as well the police commissioner and the head of the intelligence services.
It is the first time that the committee has met in Mogadishu, the scene of such fierce fighting over the past two months that has forced an estimated 200,000 residents to flee their homes, joining the hundreds of thousands of other internally displaced persons (IDPs) within Somalia.
The committee's main task is to jointly coordinate efforts to support and improve the Somali security institutions. It is also mandated to facilitate the disbursement of pledges made at a conference in Brussels, Belgium, in April to boost Somali security.
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