Closure of UNPOS
The United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS) completed its Security Council mandate on 3 June 2013. The United Nations continues to provide support to the Somalia Federal Government's peace and reconciliation efforts through the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), established by Security Council resolution 2101 (2013).
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3 May
2010
Peace in Somalia is not only possible but is 'relatively easy' to achieve, according to Ambassador Amadou Ould-Abdallah, a veteran diplomat who has served as Mauritania's foreign minister and ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the European Union and the United States. Since 2007, he has been the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Somalia, a country that has not had a functioning government since the 1991 ouster of Mohamed Siad Barre, a dictator who was maintained in power during the Cold War by both the Soviet Union and United States, successively. [Full Interview]