Somalia welcomed the lifting of the arms embargo by the Security Council

In 1992, the Security Council imposed a comprehensive arms embargo against the country in order to prevent Somali warlords from obtaining military equipment. With the election of Hassan Sheikh Mahmud to the presidential palace of Somalia in 2022, a convergence in the process of fighting terrorist groups, including al-Shabaab, and establishing stability and security in this country, therefore, the government of Mogadishu asked the Security Council to end the arms embargo on Somalia. . In its meeting last Friday, this council unanimously canceled the arms embargo on Somalia and extended the arms embargo on the terrorist group al-Shabaab (linked to al-Qaeda).

The President, Prime Minister, Speaker of the Parliament and governors of various states of Somalia welcomed the lifting of the arms embargo of this country by the United Nations Security Council and announced: This action allows the Mogadishu government to take stronger steps in the fight against the Al-Shabaab terrorist group. .

According to Mogadishu’s Mogadishu newspaper “New Somalia”, President of Somalia “Hasan Sheikh Mahmoud” said two weeks ago: Eradication of al-Shabaab group is only The option before Somalia.

He pointed to the capability of the Somali army and its allied forces in suppressing the al-Shabaab group and not needing African troops to establish stability and security in The country said: African Union-affiliated peacekeepers will leave Somalia by December 2023. 3,000 peacekeepers of this union are supposed to leave Somalia by the end of December (January 10) and hand over the security responsibility of 8 operational bases to the army.

Somalia’s national security adviser announced the army’s readiness to take over the said bases and said: “The government is committed to the process of security transfer so that it can assume full responsibility for the country’s security in December 2024.

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