UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that the conditions for the deployment of a possible UN peacekeeping operation in Somalia are still not in place.
The conditions included "a viable and inclusive political process and an agreement on the cessation of hostilities," Ban said in a report to the Security Council.
Ban said the UN Secretariat is in the process of updating its contingency plan for a possible integrated UN peacekeeping operation to succeed the African Union (AU) peacekeeping force, known as AMISOM, currently in Somalia.
"In the meantime, contingency planning for an integrated peacekeeping operation should be continually updated, so that we are prepared for deployment as soon as the conditions permit," he said.
These conditions, as noted by a fact-finding mission led by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), "are regrettably not in place," the secretary-general added.
Source:Xinhua
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