UN OFFICIAL KIDNAPPED.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 4 Issue: 20

Vincent Cochetel, director of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ Office for the North Caucasus, was kidnapped at gunpoint in North Ossetia’s capital Vladikavkaz last night. Cochetel is a French citizen. The captors’ identity and motives are not yet known. (Reuter, January 30)

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