The UN Security Council on Tuesday called on Somali leaders to resume
"urgent dialogue"
to resolve the political crisis in Somalia, in a statement unanimously approved at a closed-door meeting.
He calls on them
"to work together, in the interest of the Somali people, to reach a consensus on the modalities of the holding of inclusive elections with a view to holding them as soon as possible"
, specifies the statement drafted by the United Kingdom. United.
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In this regard, the Council
"took note of the announcement of new talks on February 15"
, adds the text.
The 15 members of the Council also hailed in their declaration
"the role of the African Union in promoting dialogue between the parties in Somalia"
, and "
condemned the terrorist attacks"
of radical Islamists Shabab.
The closed meeting of the Council was requested by London in view of the situation in Somalia, where the opposition now considers the president illegitimate.
A new meeting of the Security Council on Somalia has long been scheduled for February 22, ahead of a renewal of the African Union Amisom mission which expires on February 28.
Somalia has slipped into crisis with a president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, nicknamed Farmajo, who is deemed illegitimate by the opposition after the official end of his term on Sunday without the East African country having arrived to organize elections.
The country has been plunged into instability since 1991 and the fall of the military regime of former President Siad Barre, which plunged Somalia into a clan war, followed by the insurgency of radical Islamist Shebab.