A week after a large consignment of undeclared weapons and a white powder — suspected to be cocaine — was found hidden in a shipment of trucks meant for a United Nations peacekeeping mission, the UN Secretary-General and the UN Information Centre-Nairobi have issued a statement claiming that the failure to declare the weapons in the shipping manifest had occurred due to miscommunication between the Indian authorities and the UN contractor who was responsible for the shipment. The statement made no reference to the white powder.

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