Maldives president DID refuse UN help
A video shows UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric talking to reporters about exchanges between the United Nations and Malé.
23 Feb 2018, 9:00 AM
President Abdulla Yameen declined a mediation offer from the United Nations Secretary General to help with the state of emergency, undermining government assertions that there was no such refusal.
A video shows UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric talking to reporters about exchanges between the UN and Malé.
One journalist tells him that Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Mohamed Shainee denied that a mediation offer was turned down and asks Dujarric for comment.
“The secretary general offered UN mediation but the president conveyed that mediation was not wanted at this stage,” replies the spokesman.
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