According to reports from Sierra Leone, the country's president, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, told the daily newspaper, The Independent , that Sam Bockarie had called to propose peace talks. The peace proposal followed the United Nations troops' new offensive against the Revolutionary United Front, and renewed British pledge for military support for Kabbah's administration. Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea discuss border security. Liberia and its neighbors, Sierra Leone and Guinea, have started discussing border security in the aftermath of raids initiated by Liberian dissidents from Guinean territory. The Guinean government has repeatedly denied Liberia's accusations that Liberian dissidents were operating from bases in Guinean territory.
Junta makes last minute modification to constitution.
General Robert Guei, head of Cote d'Ivoire's junta has announced a last minute change to the constitution to be voted Sunday. The new version of the constitution states that a presidential candidate must be Ivorian by origin, born of a mother and father themselves of Ivorian origin. The previous version allowed a candidate to be of Ivorian origin but only one of the candidate's parents needed to be of Ivorian origin. Reports said the lawyer believes South Africa might have legal grounds for a call for a revote. The bid went to Germany earlier this month after Oceania's representative Charles Dempsey abstained from voting despite being given clear instructions to vote for South Africa in case England was eliminated.