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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council on Thursday reiterated its "full support" for Ivory Coast's prime minister exercising the wide powers it gave him to prepare for elections next year, implicitly rejecting an alternative peace plan by the country's president.
The council stood by the resolution it adopted on Nov. 1 that extended Ivory Coast's transitional government for a final year and gave new powers to the country's unelected prime minister, Charles Konan Banny, to implement a peace plan and prepare for long-delayed elections.
President Laurent Gbagbo has rejected the road map to peace drawn up by a group of mediators known as the International Working Group and backed by the United Nations. He presented an alternative peace plan Wednesday, calling for the abolishment of a buffer zone between rebels and government forces in the West African country and direct talks with rebels.
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