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UN Extends Ivory Coast Peace Mission, Defying Gbagbo
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The United Nations Security Council voted 15-0 today to extend the mandate of the world body’s peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast for six months in defiance of President Laurent Gbagbo’s called for the withdrawal of the 9,000 troops.
“We are not going to leave,” Alain LeRoy, head of UN peacekeeping, told reporters after a Security Council meeting on Ivory Coast. “It is a very delicate and dangerous period, but we have a mandate to fulfill, and we will use all means necessary to fulfill that mandate.”