Francois Delattre, Ambassador of France to United Nations addresses a news conference during the 9th annual joint consultative meeting between the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council and the United Nations (UN) Security Council at African Union Headquarters in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, March 12, 2015. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council lifted a 12-year-old arms embargo on Ivory Coast on Thursday and renewed the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the West African state for a final year.
The world's top cocoa grower has emerged from a decade-long crisis that culminated in a brief 2011 war to become a rising African economic star. The U.N. arms embargo was imposed in 2004 after an initial 2002-2003 civil war.
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