Guinea Bissau: Ban and Security Council Strongly Condemn Country's Military Coup

13 April 2012

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council today strongly condemned the military coup that took place in Guinea-Bissau and demanded the immediate restoration of constitutional order.

Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau, a West African nation that has been beset by coups, misrule and political instability since it gained independence from Portugal in the early 1970s, seized power last night and are holding both the interim President, Raimundo Pereira, and Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior.

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