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Mahuad hasn't resigned: Ecuadoran IM

QUITO: Ecuador's Interior Minister Vladimiro Alvarez said on Friday President Jamil Mahuad, facing an uprising by a segment of the military during the country's worst economic crisis in decades, had no plan to resign.

"The president believes that his resignation or a presidential succession, as many are talking about, is not the solution our country is waiting for. It would be worse to abandon our functions during a crisis like the one our country is living through," Alvarez told local television.-Reuters