March 05, 2014
A United Nations envoy (click here) 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 to return to his hotel on foot, but stopped into a cafe where he was detained briefly by men in combat fatigues who blocked the door. Serry was eventually allowed to leave the cafe after agreeing to leave Crimea immediately....
