United Nations, March 24, SPA -- Events in Ivory Coast may "spin outof control with incalculable consequences" for its peopleand the region unless armed militias are reined in,Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned in a new report. He told the Security Council in the report circulatedWednesday that the security situation in Ivory Coastremains "precarious," the disarmament of ex-combatantsand militias hasn't started, and the mobilization ofmilitia-type groups is increasing nationwide. "I am deeply concerned by the arming of these militias,and their increasingly dangerous activities, including inAbidjan," Annan said. "These groups ... may provoke amajor confrontation." Ivory Coast has been split into a rebel-held north andloyalist south since a September 2002 coup attemptpropelled the world's largest cocoa grower into civil war.A May 2003 ceasefire agreement that ended the fighting hasbeen repeatedly violated.--SPA1356 Local Time 1056 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/249518