James Swan, the United Nations Special Envoy for Somalia, held a meeting with the foreign affairs ministers of several East African nations to discuss the electoral impasse in Somalia.
On February 11, Swan had a telephone conversation with Demeke Mekonnen, Ethiopia’s Deputy Prime Minister and the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Their discussions mostly centered on the electoral difficulties that Somalia has been experiencing lately.
This meeting followed the pattern he established this week of holding telephone conversations with the foreign affairs ministers of other nations in the East African region.
He has spoken with the foreign affairs ministers of Kenya, Djibouti, and Uganda too to listen to their views of the problems bedeviling Somalia in its quest for a successful electoral process.