UN Envoy Forced Out of Crimea By Armed Men

A United Nations envoy has left Crimea after being threatened and briefly detained by armed men. U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson told reporters by phone from Kyiv Wednesday that special envoy Robert Serry, a Dutch diplomat, was leaving naval headquarters in Crimea when he was stopped and threatened by what Eliasson called "unidentified people," some of whom were armed. Eliasson and James Mates, a reporter for Britain's ITN who was with Serry, said the official tried...

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