Mogadishu, 16 May-(ANA)-Eritrea has denied reports that it has been supplying Islamists in Somalia with weapons and ammunition.
The Eritrean ambassador to the UN, Araya Desta, told the BBC that the claims were "totally false".
Both the US and the UN Security Council have voiced concern over reports of Eritrean involvement.
Several Somali Islamist groups operated from Eritrea after being ousted from the capital Mogadishu when Ethiopian troops entered Somalia in 2006.
Meanwhile the British ambassador to the UN, John Sawers, has said that the UN Security Council has not ruled out the idea of a UN peacekeeping force in Somalia, but has not decided to commit one as yet.(ANA)
