Dakar — West African leaders want the United Nations to significantly strengthen its peacekeeping force in Cote d'Ivoire to ensure new efforts to end the three-year war there finally pay off, Senegal's Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio said on Monday.
Gadio said that the call for more blue helmets was one of a dozen proposals made at a special one-day summit on the Ivorian crisis, which brought together leaders from the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Friday.
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