ILLUSTRATION-United Nations (Afp)What we are trying to do is to draw a balance between those who want the lifting of the weapons embargo and those who feel it's time yet to revoke the embargo of weapons. "United Nations (Reuters)-the U.n. Security Council on Wednesday agreed to repeal a portion of the weapons embargo against Somalia over the past year to the Government in Mogadishu could purchase light weapons to reinforce the security forces in the fight against militants linked to Al Qaida.
DK with 15 countries approved unanimously a draft resolution renewing the mandate of the United Kingdom which also peacekeeping forces of the African Union for a year longer and reorder the UN Mission in the Horn of Africa country, Reuters reports.
The Somali Government's request for the removal of the weapons embargo and the u.s. supports fully the proposal, but other UN countries worrying about it because the African country is already flooded with a lot of weapons, some diplomats said.
"What we are trying to do is to draw a balance between those who want the lifting of the weapons embargo and those who feel it's time yet to revoke weapons embargo," said the United Kingdom's Ambassador to the UN Mark Lyall Grant told reporters. "It's a nice compromise and strong."
Weapons Embargo against Somalia imposed in 1992 to decide the flow of weapons to the warlords who toppled head of State a year earlier.
SECURITY COUNCIL resolution that imposed a prohibition on permanent weapons such as missiles, land-air, large calibre guns, howitzers, Cannon and mortars as well as rifles, anti-tank missiles, mines and guns of invisibility.
Somalia plunged into the throes of power and anarchy since warlords toppled warlord-dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. In addition to piracy, kidnapping and deadly violence also hit the country.
The new Government of Somalia under President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who took office in September 2012, ended an eight-year transitional Western support littered corruption.
Al-Shabaab, which was allied with Al-Qaida inflames the war over the next few years in an attempt to overthrow the provisional Government of Somalia UNITED NATIONS support that is only mastered a number of areas in Mogadishu.
Washington called Al-Shabaab as a terrorist organization that has close ties with the Al-Qaida network led by Osama bin Laden.
The militia Al-Shabaab line and its allies attempted to overthrow the Government then led by President Sharif Ahmed when they launched a deadly offensive several years ago.
They faced fierce resistance from the pro-Government militia groups who oppose the enforcement of strict Islamic law in the region of Central and southern Somalia, which they mastered.
Al-Shabaab and other hard-line guerrilla group wants to impose strict sharia law in Somalia and also has performed the execution, execution-stoning and amputation in the southern and central regions. (M014)
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