EU officials, Somali president discuss security, humanitarian aid in Brussels - The EU Commission has indicated that security issues and humanitarian aid to Somalia will dominate talks involving the president of the Commission, Manuel Durao Barroso, the EU parliament's Speaker, Martin Schulz, and president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somali, due here Wednesday.
PANA reports that the EU is currently sustaining the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and training the forces tasked with ensuring the security of federal government of Somalia.
The European Union has initiated since Since 2008, the EU has initiated an operation, dubbed Atlanta, in the Indian Ocean along the Somalian coast to track down pirates attacking ships of the World Food Programme conveying food aid to the East African country.
Pana 30/01/2013