.- Alassane Ouattara, recognized by the international community as president-elect of the Ivory Coast, will attend the March 10th meeting of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, today announced from its headquarters Hotel Golf provisional Abidjan. Ouattara announced to reporters after receiving your next trip to the chairman of the AU Commission, Jean Ping, who also invited the meeting to Laurent Gbagbo, who was defeated in the presidential elections of November 28 but has refused to leave the power.
Ping, who arrived in Abidjan, accompanied by Commissioner for Peace and Security of the AU, Ramtane Lamamra, also visited the President of the Ivorian Constitutional Council, Paul Yao N'Dré, Gbagbo's family in a body formed by its allies, which was also summoned to meet next week in Addis Ababa.
Neither Gbagbo nor Yao N'Dré have commented on the invitation of African leaders. Ping's visit, who has not spoken in Côte d'Ivoire has taken place following a meeting yesterday in Nouakchott by the Commission of five presidents appointed by the African Union summit late last January to resolve the conflict.
Ouattara was recognized by the international community as president-elect of the Ivory Coast according to the results of past polls released by the Electoral Commission, which were certified by the United Nations Operation in the country (UNOCI). However, Gbagbo appealed to supporters of the Constitutional Council, which overturned nearly a million votes in northern parts of the country where the vast majority Ouattara had and gave him the victory, despite international condemnation.
H Ping visited Ivory Coast two days after the Defence and Security Forces (FDS), which support Gbagbo, fired with heavy weapons against a peaceful demonstration by women supporters of Ouattara and slay seven of them, as confirmed by the UN. Although the SDS has categorically denied in a statement released by the Ivorian Radio and Television (RTI) have shot women, the television station of the supporters of Ouattara has released footage of the military is firing from armored vehicles to the demonstration .
Clashes between the SDS and the New Forces, the former rebel army that fell apart at the end of civil war (2002-007) and controlling the north of the country, going on for over a week in West Coast d'Ivoire, Abidjan occur while fighting in some neighborhoods. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced from their homes in recent days in Ivory Coast, especially in Abidjan, due to violence, according to the UN.
On Friday, UNOCI confirmed that at least 365 people have died in election violence in Ivory thing since last December, most at the hands of the SDS, militias and mercenaries hired by Gbagbo. In addition to the confirmed deaths, the UN is also investigating the alleged existence of mass graves containing the bodies of hundreds of people kidnapped by militants and mercenaries on the side of Gbagbo and the fate of other missing. 
Ping, who arrived in Abidjan, accompanied by Commissioner for Peace and Security of the AU, Ramtane Lamamra, also visited the President of the Ivorian Constitutional Council, Paul Yao N'Dré, Gbagbo's family in a body formed by its allies, which was also summoned to meet next week in Addis Ababa.
Neither Gbagbo nor Yao N'Dré have commented on the invitation of African leaders. Ping's visit, who has not spoken in Côte d'Ivoire has taken place following a meeting yesterday in Nouakchott by the Commission of five presidents appointed by the African Union summit late last January to resolve the conflict.
Ouattara was recognized by the international community as president-elect of the Ivory Coast according to the results of past polls released by the Electoral Commission, which were certified by the United Nations Operation in the country (UNOCI). However, Gbagbo appealed to supporters of the Constitutional Council, which overturned nearly a million votes in northern parts of the country where the vast majority Ouattara had and gave him the victory, despite international condemnation.
H Ping visited Ivory Coast two days after the Defence and Security Forces (FDS), which support Gbagbo, fired with heavy weapons against a peaceful demonstration by women supporters of Ouattara and slay seven of them, as confirmed by the UN. Although the SDS has categorically denied in a statement released by the Ivorian Radio and Television (RTI) have shot women, the television station of the supporters of Ouattara has released footage of the military is firing from armored vehicles to the demonstration .
Clashes between the SDS and the New Forces, the former rebel army that fell apart at the end of civil war (2002-007) and controlling the north of the country, going on for over a week in West Coast d'Ivoire, Abidjan occur while fighting in some neighborhoods. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced from their homes in recent days in Ivory Coast, especially in Abidjan, due to violence, according to the UN.
On Friday, UNOCI confirmed that at least 365 people have died in election violence in Ivory thing since last December, most at the hands of the SDS, militias and mercenaries hired by Gbagbo. In addition to the confirmed deaths, the UN is also investigating the alleged existence of mass graves containing the bodies of hundreds of people kidnapped by militants and mercenaries on the side of Gbagbo and the fate of other missing.
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