Ivory Coast crisis:

UN warns attacks on blue helmets

UN: United Nations warned of an increase of hostile actions against its Blue Helmets in Ivory Coast, while the Security Council makes a new session on the crisis in that country.

The attacks come from supporters of the outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo, who reject the former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara as the winner of the presidential elections of November 28, said UN Special Representative for Cote d'Ivoi Choi Young-Jin. Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the UN reported that at present the United Nations operation in Cote d'Ivoire is focused on certificating the elections and the peacekeeping. United Nations, Prensa Latina