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| U.N. creating Ivory Coast mission |
| 2003-05-13 |
| U.N. Security Council members intend to create a new peacekeeping mission in the Ivory Coast Tuesday with a maximum of 76 military observers to help enforce a fragile cease-fire in the West African nation's eight-month civil war. 76 observers, yeah, that'll help With massacres reported daily, the council's resolution establishes for six months a U.N. Mission in Cote d'Ivoire, known by the French acronym MINUCI. All tremble before the mighty French acronym! The mission will also include a small number of civilian officials for political, legal, humanitarian and human rights issues. The military officers are to work with a West African force and the 4,000 French soldiers in the country as well as the Ivory Coast military and rebel militia to give advice and monitor a January cease-fire. The mission would serve for an initial six months, subject to renewal. Because no one expects this to be over in 6 months. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan had asked for a total of 255 personnel, including 76 military officers, 85 international and 89 local civilian staff plus U.N. volunteers. But the United States objected to its one-year price tag of $27 million and sent the proposal back to the U.N. peacekeeping department to be trimmed. See, the US is responsible for this failure even before it starts. You knew they'd find a way to blame us, didn't you? "I think it will make an immediate difference to have this U.N. instrument on the ground even though it isn't a weapon-wielding force itself," British Ambassador Sir Jeremy Greenstock told a news conference Monday. Because, we're the U.N.! Greenstock leads a Security Council mission to West Africa, beginning Thursday in Nigeria, the largest nation in the region. The delegation will then visit the capitals of Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone during the seven-day trip. Seven hellholes in seven days. That's what you get booking your vacation on CheapTickets.com. |
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