Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre chaired a special meeting designed to discuss the lifting of the arms embargo imposed by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
Prime Minister Barre chaired the special meeting at his office in Mogadishu.
Top security officers joined specific ministry officials to discuss government-led efforts to convince UNSC to lift the embargo.
UNSC imposed the embargo in 1992.
As recently as late last year, Somalia failed in its efforts to convince the Security Council to lift the embargo.