Summary: 9 October 2007, Brussels - The European Union (EU) is concerned about the evolving security situation in the Somali northern region of Sool particularly in and around the regional capital of Las Anod. The EU urges all parties involved to exercise maximum restraint and to refrain from any further confrontation to avoid further escalation and degeneration into a wider conflict.
The EU supports all effort towards the settlement of the current dispute through peaceful discourse, and urges all parties involved to declare an immediate unconditional state of cessation of hostilities and influence the full restraint of local groups from any further fighting thereby availing space for dialogue and reconciliation.
The EU believes that military confrontation will not serve the interest of the local communities but instead threaten the stability of the area as a whole. The EU shall remain seized with developments.
The Candidate Countries Turkey, Croatia* and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia*, the Countries of the Stabilisation and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and the EFTA countries Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, members of the European Economic Area, as well as Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia align themselves with this declaration
* Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia continue to be part of the Stabilisation and Association Process.
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