Somalia's prime minister wants U.N. to take over from small African Union force in his country

On September 27, 2007 Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi called for U.N. peace keepers to take over from a small African Union force. The prime goal would be to help restore security and combat terrorism. Key UN countries decided that their must be a peace in order to maintain one and Somalia is not in a state of peace. Gedi complains that he is not getting the help he need in order to deploy the 8,000 strong African Union force. Only 1,500 AU troops from Uganda made it to Somalia. He wants the deployment of the African Union force to be a UN mission because he believes it will be more cost-efficient, the longer we wait the more costly it will be. Diplomats said their is almost no attempt to support deploying U.N. forces in Somalia.