UN General Assembly
1992

We look forward to the support of the international community for that role in order for it to achieve the goals spelled out at the Bahr Dar meeting. We had expected the international community to recognize that role and develop it, as stability in the region is important, especially to its countries and for the welfare of its peoples which cannot be ensured without this desired stability. However, what happened instead was that a decision to send international forces to Somalia was taken, and the numbers of those forces have started to increase from one day to the next. It was our opinion that such forces should have been composed of contingents from the countries of the region itself, because we are worried that some countries from outside the region may pursue their own interests there by supporting one faction or another against the others and thereby enabling it to win the war. Stability in Somalia cannot be achieved without comprehensive national reconciliation; one faction cannot