UN Secretary-general Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday condemned the Monday looting of UN offices in Somalia, a UN statement said.
The statement, issued here by Ban's spokesperson Michele Montas, said: "The secretary-general condemns the looting yesterday of UN offices in Somalia. Such acts target the whole gamut of UN peace and humanitarian operation in Somalia."
"The UN is providing life-saving support to people in need throughout Somalia, and will continue to do all it can to help the country emerge from decades of violence," the statement added.
The United Nations said on Monday that the world body was temporarily suspending its humanitarian work in Baidoa, south central Somalia, after its offices there were raided by Somalia's hard-line Shebab militia.
Earlier on Monday, the Shebab militia raided the offices of the United Nations Development Program, the UN Department of Safety and Security and the UN Political Office for Somalia in Baidoa and Wajid hours after banning their operations on charges that they were "enemies of Islam and Muslims," reports said.
(Xinhua News Agency July 22, 2009)
