(Updates with comments from the Minister for Foreign Affairs French in second paragraph).
April 5 (Bloomberg) - the leaders of the forces loyal to the former of C?te d'Ivoire, President Laurent Gbagbo, said that they lay down their arms as a four-month political crisis comes to an end.Gbagbo is to negotiate his exit from power, France 24 said on its website, citing the French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe. Earlier, the troops of rival choir that alassane Ouattara has captured most of the commercial capital, Abidjan.Phillippe Mangou, Chief of army staff and Bruno Dogbo wire, the head of Gbagbo's Republican Guard, said the Organization of the United Nations they will stop fightingA Hanadoun Toure spokesman said. "For the protection of the United Nations, request" Toure, said in an interview by telephone from Abidjan today. "C?te d'Ivoire has been locked in a political stalemate since elections on 28 November that Gbagbo, Ouattara and 65, 69, ask to have won. While the United Nations, the United States, the African Union and the European Union will recognize Ouattara as the winner, Gbagbo has alleged electoral fraud and refused to relinquish power.The militia of the Ouattara, called the Republican Forces, invade the Gbagbo's residence today after six days of fighting in the largest city in the country, including the Associated Press reported news agencies. Gbagbo took refuge in a bunker, PA said, citing an unidentified diplomat.RefugeAlcide Djédjé, the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Gbagbo Government, found refuge in the House of the France Ambassador, Alan Lobognon, a spokesman for the rebel forces in the country, said in an interview.Gbagbo's forces are unilaterally fixing weapons, Djedje said in an interview on France24.The assignment comes after UN and French helicopters fired on two army bases, the Presidential Palace and residence of Gbagbo yesterday to put heavy weapons of action. "" I heard machine-gun fire and serious explosions since around 6 o'clock in the morning ", has said Alain Yapi, a resident of the Cocody district, which houses the residence of the Gbagbo.La crisis has pushed the price of cocoa, of which Ivory Coast is the largest producer in the world, 33 per cent in the course of four months and caused the country default on Eurobonds $ 2.3 billion.-With the help of Franz Wild in Johannesburg, Jason McLure in Accra and Gregory Viscusi in Paris. Editors: Philip Sanders, John Crilly, Antony Sguazzin
To contact the reporters on this story: Pauline Bax and Olivier Monnier in Abidjan via ebowers1@bloomberg.net Accra; Franz Wild in Johannesburg at fwild@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin to asguazzin@bloomberg.net.
没有评论:
发表评论