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Published 3/12/2009 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - Somalia's volatile political climate has fueled "uncertainties" about whether a U.N. peacekeeping force is the right tool to support the new government's efforts to establish itself and promote national reconciliation, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday.
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