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police forces and public institutions, and to support and facilitate peacebuilding recovery
and humanitarian efforts. More specifically, Council endorses the new force strength of
20,000, with the requisite air and maritime capabilities (paragraph 68), the enhanced police
component of 1,680, comprising 560 police experts on mission and eight (8) Formed Police
Units (FPUs) of 140 each (paragraph 74), and an enhanced civilian component;
14.
Urgently calls on Member States to provide the required military and other
personnel, including police, for AMISOM to reach its newly authorized strength, as well as to
contribute to the mobilization of the necessary logistical and financial resources, bearing in
mind the need for Africa to demonstrate renewed determination and sense of solidarity
with Somalia, one of the OAU founding members;
15.
Appreciates the invaluable support, including political, financial and logistical,
provided so far by the international community, in particular the United Nations and other
AU partners, including the European Union and its member States, the League of Arab
States, the United States and other bilateral partners, which has made ongoing AU efforts
for Somalia possible, and further calls on them and, in particular, the Security Council to
take the decisions now required of it in line with its primary responsibility for the
maintenance of international peace and security, by:
(i)
endorsing the revised concept of operations and newly‐authorized strength
of AMISOM, namely, 20,000 troops for the military component, 1,680 for the
police component, comprising 560 police experts on mission and 8 Formed
Police Units of 140 each, and an enhanced civilian component,
(ii)
authorizing an enhanced support package for AMISOM, funded through UN
assessed contributions, on the basis of the newly‐authorized strength, and
catering for reimbursements for Contingent Owned Equipment (COE),
including minor and major equipment, and the payment of troop allowances
at UN rates, in order to ensure adequate, predictable and sustainable support
to the Mission. In addition, Council requests that such support be availed to
the Mission both within and outside Somalia, as required,
(iii)
imposing, in response to the request by the AU and the region, a naval
blockade and a no‐fly zone over Somalia to prevent the entry of foreign
elements into Somalia, as well as flights and shipments carrying weapons and
ammunitions to armed groups inside Somalia which are carrying out attacks
against the TFG, AMISOM and the Somali population. In this respect, Council
urges the Security Council to request the naval operations undertaken off the
coast of Somalia and with its authorization, to provide a more direct and
tangible support to AMISOM, the modalities of which will be subsequently
defined between the concerned countries and organizations, on the one
hand, the AU, on the other,
(iv)
ensuring the effective implementation of sanctions against all those impeding
the peace and reconciliation process in Somalia, in particular through