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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The U.N. Security Council has not ruled out a U.N. peacekeeping force for Somalia, a top envoy said Saturday after meeting with African Union officials to discuss problems in Somalia and Sudan.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has come out against such a force, but the fierce fighting that has ravaged Mogadishu, the capital, in the past few days appeared to weigh on the diplomats’ minds.
“The question of a United Nations peacekeeping mission remains on the table,” Britain’s U.N. Ambassador John Sawers said after hours of talks in Addis Ababa. Sawers is leading the 15-nation U.N. Security Council on its eight-day African trip, which will take envoys to Rwanda, Liberia and Congo.
