USA,(insidesomalia.org)- The US government has said that it was keeping an eye on the Somali political situation.

The US secretary of state, Codoleezza Rice, who held a meeting with the UN special envoy to Somalia, Ahmadou ould Abdallah, said that the US was paying attention to Somalia's political situation and will continue to keep an eye on it.

The meeting between Condoleeza Rice and Ahmadou ould Abdallah which was also attended by John Negroponte, Deputy secretary of state; and Jendayi Frazer, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, discussed the Somalia peace process and how to implement the Djibouti peace agreement which was signed on 9 June between the transitional government and the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia.

Condoleeza Rice said that the USA was in support of the peace talks, the efforts of Ahmadou ould Abdallah to continue with the peace process and the deployment of UN peacekeepers in Somalia