Stand-off between UN and US worsens
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On the political front, the Mr Boutros-Ghali is angling to outflank the efforts by the US representative in Somalia, Robert Oakley, to organise a settlement between the main warring factions. In a not-so-subtle gesture, he instructed his representative in Somalia to notify Mr Oakley that the warlords had been invited to UN peace talks in Addis Ababa.
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