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Press encounter as SG entered the Parliament Building in (unofficial transcript)
Press events | Kofi Annan, Former Secretary-General
Press events | Kofi Annan, Former Secretary-General
Q: [Al Qaeda fighters are asking] for UN protection. Are you willing to give them that?
SG: [My Special Representative Lakhdar] Brahimi is down on the ground and obviously we are not very heavily represented on the ground. We have no troops, we have no facilities, but I will have to check with my people on the ground what is happening.
This is not the first time we've been asked to take on something of that kind, but to do it you need physically to be present, with troops, with equipment, with others, that we don't have yet.