Taylor skips his resignation speech

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Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday skipped a planned resignation speech to parliament as west African peacekeepers began patrolling the war-riven capital Monrovia.

Taylor's spokesperson Vanii Passewe said that the beleaguered leader would not address the emergency parliament session but underlined that he would hand over power on Monday, as promised to west African mediators seeking to end the west African country's second civil war in little more than a decade.

"He's not going to the Capitol, but the legislators are meeting," Passewe said, adding: "For sure he'll hand over power on Monday."

However, scepticism abounded over whether Taylor -- who controls only a fifth of his ravaged west African country after nearly five years of war -- would keep to his word.

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