Identifier
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07CAIRO1518
2007-05-23 13:31:00
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Embassy Cairo
Cable title:
SOMALIA: ARAB LEAGUE CONDEMNS ATTACK ON AMISOM
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UNCLAS CAIRO 001518
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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: MOPS PREL ARABL SO
SUBJECT: SOMALIA: ARAB LEAGUE CONDEMNS ATTACK ON AMISOM
REF: SECSTATE 68871
Sensitive but unclassified, please protect accordingly.
(SBU) Hisham Youssef, Arab League Chief of Staff, was quoted
in local media on May 20 as "strongly condemning" the May 16
killing of four peacekeepers from the African Union's Mission
in Somalia (AMISOM). On May 23, Samir Hosni, head of the
Arab League Office of African Affairs, told poloff that this
attack highlighted the need for the Ethiopian-backed
Transitional Federal Government (TFG) to work towards
inclusive reconciliation, including with remnants of the
Union of Islamic Courts (UIC). The League position, he said,
supported a withdraw of Ethiopian troops from Somalia in
favor of a stronger AMISOM force. Hosni said that "at least
the moderate members" of the former UIC must be part of the
political process. Hosni suggested that the new UN-led
International Advisory Committee on Somalia could help
mobilize funding for more African troops for AMISOM.
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