To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment her Department has made of the security situation on the Somalia and Ethiopia border; and if she will make a statement. (106566)

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary to the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) on 27 November 2006, Official Report, columns 469-70W.