UNITED NATIONS, July 14 (UPI) -- The U.N. Security Council urges Somalia to reduce tensions and wind up a comprehensive and verifiable cease-fire agreement leading to final disarmament.
The panel Thursday expressed concern "recent disagreements and increased tensions" threaten the viability of Transitional Federal Institutions being relocated to Somalia from Kenya.
Ambassador Adamantios Vassilakis of Greece, council president for July, read out a statement approved in a formal meeting by the 15-member body, saying "violence or military action by any members of the TFI or other parties is unacceptable as the means for dealing with the current differences within the TFIs."
He said, "Any members of those institutions or other parties who persist on the path of confrontation and conflict, including military action, will be held accountable."
Secretary-General Kofi Annan said last month that though the interim government was formed in Nairobi, Kenya, over eight months ago, deep splits between Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and Parliament speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan over its location within Somalia have stalled a move to either the Somali capital, Mogadishu, or nearby Jawhar.
