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SOMALIA NEWS UPDATE / This item is <abridged>.
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1993 11:02:50 +0100
From: Bernhard Helander {antbh@strix.udac.uu.se}
To: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu
Subject: Somalia News Updated, No 5
In this issue:
UN MAY SEND BIGGEST FORCE EVER TO SOMALIA
SNU COMMENT: UN AS AN OBSTACLE TO PEACE IN SOMALIA
KISMAYO FIGHTING CONTINUES
MARINES FIND WEAPONS CACHE IN MOGADISHU
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S O M A L I A N E W S U P D A T E
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Vol 2, No 5 February 4, 1993. ISSN 1103-1999
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Somalia News Update is published irregularly via electronic mail and
fax. Questions can be directed to antbh@strix.udac.uu.se or to fax
number +46-18-151160. All material is free to quote as long as the
source is stated.
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UN MAY SEND BIGGEST FORCE EVER TO SOMALIA
Copyright 1992. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
(AP, Feb 3) -- A U.N. special envoy said Wednesday the world body may
send its biggest peacekeeping force ever to Somalia. He said he hopes
the troops get a tougher than usual mandate to police this ravaged
East African nation.
But envoy Ismat Kittani of Iraq told reporters he could not predict
when a U.N. force would be able to take over from the U.S.-led
coalition that has been policing parts of Somalia since Dec. 9. Any
such force would require Security Council authorization.
Kittani said a consensus was building within the United Nations to
make the Somali peacekeeping force "very, very large and perhaps the
largest" in U.N. history.
He said the force might include up to 20,000 soldiers -- about
3,000 more than the United Nations now has in Cambodia, its largest
operation to date.
And, he said, "if one were to venture a guess, I think the tendency
is toward giving it an enforcement mandate, rather than the
traditional peacekeeping mandate."
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Posted by Bernhard Helander in Uppsala, Sweden.