CY+Ethiopia in 2002

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Date: 22 May 2002
Letter from the Security Council Committee concerning Somalia to the President of the Security Council

Letter dated 21 May 2002 from the Chairman of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 751 (1992) concerning Somalia addressed to the President of the Security Council .

Ethiopia is flooding arms, ammunition and landmines into the following regions of Somalia: Bay, Bakool, North-east, Hiiraan, Jowhar and Mogadishu. Ethiopia is supplying these weapons to the warlords who oppose both the Transitional National Government and the national reconciliation process in Somalia.

1. North-east Region

In April and the first half of May 2002, the Government of Ethiopia supplied Colonel Abdillahi Yusuf with the following:

P-10 anti-tank
Machine guns, 120-mm
PKM
DSHK
AK-47
RPJ-7
Ethiopia supplied those arms to Col. Abdillahi Yusuf to stage a coup d'etat against the elected leadership of this region and enabled him to capture, on 7 May 2002, the port city of Boosaaso.
Col. Abdillahi Yusuf was supported by a large contingent of Ethiopian troops from the Fifth Region of Ethiopia.

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