Somalia: With Transitional Deadline Near, UN Envoy Urges Somalis to Focus On Country's Future

9 July 2012

With slightly more than a month to go before Somalia's current transitional governing period comes to end, the top United Nations political official for the East African nation today called on all Somalis to help their country on its path to peace and stability.

"The end of the transitional period will be an important benchmark, but it is time for us all to begin to look past 20 August and think about the future political dispensation of Somalia," the Secretary-General's Special Representative and head of the UN Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS), Augustine Mahiga, said in an open letter to the people of Somalia.

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