The U.N. Security Council launched an open meeting Wednesday to discuss the current situation in Somalia, which has lurched from crisis to crisis since 1991.

The 15-nation Security Council began the meeting, which will also discuss Somali piracy, by observing one minute’s silence to mourn at least 30 people killed Tuesday by Somali insurgents, who stormed a Mogadishu hotel.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and members of the Security Council are expected to speak at the meeting.

U.N. Special Representative for Somalia Augustine P. Mahiga on Tuesday strongly condemned the suicide hotel attack, saying: “These callous, brutal acts, which were clearly aimed at causing maximum bloodshed to innocent people, defy rational comprehension.”

“They will not, however, succeed in their violent campaign,” she said. “The peace process will continue in Somalia despite the attempts by a violent minority to disrupt it.”

The attack came during the fasting month of Ramadan, which according to Mahiga, “will only serve to increase the determinations of all friends of Somalia to help bring a quick end to the conflict and to provide Somalis with hope for the future.”

The attack involved Somali insurgents dressed as police officers, who stormed the hotel and opened fire before blowing themselves up.

Reports from Mogadishu said the Somali insurgent group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack through its spokesman, Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage.

Al-Shabab, along with a number of other anti-government groups, controls much of southern and central Somalia, as well as most of Mogadishu.