Fellow Citizens; I feel for the UN. One can only wonder allowed as to how many
"peacekeeping" missions in Africa in which the UN will be involved? There is conflcit
all of the continent created by the likes of Yoweri Mucebeni...You mean you are going
to deploy "UN/Africa peace keeping" troops in all those HOT zone? oh my!
Security Council Mission Heads to West Africa to Observe Peace Operations
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UN News Service (New York)
June 18, 2004
Posted to the web June 18, 2004
With the United Nations Security Council spending at least half of its
time on African issues, the Ambassadors of 14 of the 15 Council members will leave New
York on Sunday for a 10-day fact-finding visit to seven West African countries, the
leader of the group said today.
Among the mission's goals was to observe the UN peacekeeping operations in C�te
d'Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry of the United Kingdom
said at a press briefing. The other countries in the itinerary are Ghana, Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau and Nigeria.
The Russian Federation was not being represented, according to a list Mr. Parry
issued, but the Chairman of the UN Economic and Social Council's Ad Hoc Advisory Group
on Guinea-Bissau, South African Ambassador Dumisani Kumalo, would join them in that
country.
The 20 to 29 June mission would raise awareness of all UN activities in the region and
ensure that the removal of a problem in one country did not result in its arrival in
another, Ambassador Jones Parry said.
In Nigeria, the group would discuss West African issues with President Olusegun
Obasanjo, but would not meet with exiled former Liberian President Charles Taylor
since the Council's views on the need to bring Mr. Taylor to justice were fairly clear.
In C�te d'Ivoire, the Council would deliver a tough message that all signatories of
the Linas-Marcoussis peace agreement must live up to their responsibilities and keep
the national reconciliation process on track.
In Liberia, the Council would discuss the criteria the Transitional Government needed
to meet to have Security Council sanctions lifted.
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