“Somalis will not stop resisting Al-Shabaab using arms,” a top diplomat from the East African nation told the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
Ambassador Abukar Omar, Somalia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said this while addressing the UNSC.
He told the UNSC that the people and government of Somalia would not stop their resistance against Al-Shabaab militants.
In his speech, Ambassador Omar told the UNSC that Somalis would not sit back and wait for the UNSC to send condolences after yet another terrorist attack.
Instead, Somalis would go on the offensive against the terrorists.
Ambassador Omar was speaking when the UNSC voted to extend the arms embargo placed against Somalia in 1992.
UNSC members voted 11-0 to extend the arms embargo.
The diplomat said that Somalis would even use their “bare hands” if UNSC denies them the opportunity to fight terrorists using arms.