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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to extend Ivory Coast's transitional government for a final year and give new powers to the country's unelected prime minister to implement a peace plan and prepare for long-delayed elections.
The resolution sponsored by France endorses an African Union decision to give Ivory Coast Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny control of the security forces and other powers to try to reunite the war-divided West African nation and hold elections before November 2007.
It endorses the decision of the African Union's Peace and Security Council that President Laurent Gbagbo should remain head of state and Banny should remain prime minister from Nov. 1 "for a new and final transition period not exceeding 12 months."
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