Guinea security forces foil destability plot:: PM

CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinean security forces have uncovered a suspected armed plot to destabilise the West African country as it approaches the decisive round of a presidential election, its prime minister said on Saturday.

The world's biggest bauxite exporter is in the process of replacing a military-led government with what would be its first freely elected administration. The first round of voting last month produced no clear winner, and a second round is expected within weeks.

"Certain elements ... are meeting illicitly to arrange and to profit from public demonstrations by provoking disorder," Prime Minister Jean-Marie Dore said on national television.

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