The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution today expressing its intention to establish a U.N. peacekeeping force in Somalia, but putting off a decision for several months in order to assess the volatile situation in the Horn of Africa nation, according to AP. The resolution adopted by the council renewed the mandate of the African Union force, known as AMISOM, that is currently based in the Somali capital Mogadishu for another six months, and authorized additional U.N. logistical support for it. It urged African nations to beef up AMISOM's troop strength from the current 2,600 to the 8,000 originally authorized. The resolution expressed the council's «intent to establish a United Nations Peacekeeping Operation in Somalia as a follow-on force to AMISOM, subject to a further decision of the Security Council by June 1, 2009.»
