SOMALIA HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION 1992-1993 by G. P. ...

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Between 23 March and 1 April 1992: The team visited Somalia.
27 and 28 March 1992: General Aidid and Interim President Ali Mahdi,
respectively, signed Letters of Agreement on the mechanisms for monitoring the
cease-fire and an arrangement for equitable and effective distribution of
humanitarian assistance.
24 April 1992: In response to a recommendation of Secretary-General, the
Security Council adopted resolution 751/92 by which it decided to establish a
United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM). The Council also asked the
Secretary General, in cooperation with LAS, OAU and OIC, to pursue
consultations with all Somali parties toward convening a conference on national
reconciliation and unity. It also called on the international community for financial
and other support for the Secretary-General's 90 day Plan of Action for Emergency
Humanitarian Assistance to Somalia.
28 April 1992: Mr. Mohammed Sahnoun of Algeria was appointed Special
Representative for Somalia to assist in convening a conference for national
reconciliation and unity in Somalia. He would also provide overall direction to
United Nations activities in the country, including those directed at economic
recovery and rehabilitation, as well as demobilization and disarmament."' 1
Between 4 May and 19 July 1992: The Secretary-General's Special
Representative undertook extensive consultations with various Somali leaders and
Elders and other personalities throughout the country.
23 June 1992: The Secretary-General informed the Security Council that
both principal factions in Mogadishu had agreed to the immediate deployment of
the unarmed observers. (ç)
Early July 1992: The Chief Military Observer, Brigadier-General Imtiaz
Shaheen of Pakistan, and the advance party of UNOSOM observers arrived to
Mogadishu.
22 July 1992: The Secretary-General reported to the Council on the complex
political and security situation in Somalia, as well as desperate situation the
country faced in terms of needs of humanitarian assistance, recovery programmes
and institution-building. The Secretary-General concluded that the United Nations
must "adapt" its involvement in Somalia and that its efforts needed to be enlarged
in order to bring about an effective cease-fire throughout the country, while at the
same time promoting national reconciliation.