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Côte d'Ivoire: UN Sets Up 'Peace Corridors' to Facilitate Freedom of Movement

UN News Service (New York)
NEWS
September 9, 2004
Posted to the web September 10, 2004

The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (ONUCI) today announced plans to
set up "peace corridors" in a bid to promote freedom of movement in the strife-
torn West African country.
As the parties work to reunify the divided country by implementing the Accra
III agreement reached in late July, the UN mission is helping those displaced
by the conflict which began in 2002. The corridors will serve to allow families
separated by the fighting to travel between areas controlled by the Government
and those controlled by the rebel Force Nouvelles.
ONUCI says the travel should provide hope to the war's victims that peace is
returning to Côte d'Ivoire.

   

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