PSC/PR/Comm(CV) Page 5 financial and logistical support, to facilitate the deployment of the Mission and the sustenance of its operations; (xviii) FURTHER APPEALS to the AU partners to provide increased logistical and financial support for AMISOM, especially in view of the fact that the AU, in deploying an operation in Somalia, is also acting on behalf of the larger international community; On the deployment of a United Nations operation: (xix) STRESSES, once again, the need for the deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping operation in Somalia that will take over AMISOM and support the long-term stabilization and post-conflict reconstruction of Somalia; (xx) REITERATES ITS APPEAL to the Security Council to urgently take steps for the early deployment of such an operation, bearing in mind that it has the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. In the meantime, Council URGES that all steps required be taken for the UN to provide AMISOM with a support package, within the framework of the provisions of Chapter VIII of the UN Charter; (xxi) REQUESTS the African Group in New York and the African members of the Security Council to spare no efforts to ensure that Somalia features highly on the agenda of the Security Council and that the decisions expected of this organ are urgently taken; 13. REQUESTS the Chairperson of the Commission to follow up on the implementation of this decision and to report to it regularly on the steps taken to this effect; 14. DECIDES to remain seized of the matter.