The members of the United Nations Security Council will leave New York on Friday for an official mission to West Africa. The ambassadors of the 15 Security Council member states will visit Liberia, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone, a UN spokesperson told reporters at UN Headquarters in New York.
In Liberia, they will review progress in the implementation of the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), in addition to meeting President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
From Liberia, they will continue to Ivory Coast, where they will meet President Alassane Ouattara and representatives of that country's National Assembly. They will also travel to Guiglo in the west of the country, where they will be briefed on security and humanitarian issues.
From there, the Council members will fly back to the Liberian city of Zwedru to meet Ivorian refugees. The delegation will return to Abidjan in Ivory Coast, where the Council members are due to hold a meeting with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to discuss regional issues.
The delegation will then travel to Sierra Leone. The Ambassadors will meet President Ernest Bai Koroma and will hold a round table meeting with all political parties.
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