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IPU urges political dialogue to ensure swift return to constitutional rule in Burkina Faso
Fri, 31/10/2014 - 16:41
IPU deplores the attack on the National Assembly of Burkina Faso and its parliamentarians ©REUTERS/Joe Penney
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