The Ivorian president, Alassane Ouattara, said that Côte d'Ivoire needs 15 to 20 billion euros in aid and seeks G8 countries currently meeting in Deauville for it. Declared winner of presidential elections in November, he faced several months of his predecessor, Laurent Gbagbo, who challenged the vote and refused to leave power.
A crisis that ended with the arrest of Laurent Gbagbo on 11 April. "Côte d'Ivoire needs 15 to 20 billion euros out of poverty and economic agony and I count on the G8," he told Europe 1 radio the new Ivorian President invited to the summit in Deauville. "President Nicolas Sarkozy has planned a program of debt reduction and development of two billion euros.
Of course, I want a little more to the President [U.S.] Obama," he said. Alassane Ouattara also wants France to maintain on site the Licorne force, which is under UN mandate, but that ls other troops are "reactive [ed]" to fight terrorism and drug trafficking. "It will take over the defense agreement, military cooperation with France.
There will be no secret clause," he said. The Ivorian president said he would propose to Laurent Gbagbo's party to sit in the government to be formed after parliamentary elections due by the end of the year and would establish a procedure for reconciliation without abandoning the prosecution of violent crimes.
"Côte d'Ivoire must break the impunity," he said. Justice accuses Gbagbo of extortion, embezzlement, and appeals to hatred. Ouattara wants the International Criminal Court (ICC) the judge for any serious crimes, like crimes against humanity. Alassane Ouattara, it's inevitable incarceration of Laurent Gbagbo, currently under house arrest.
He wants to see it pursued internationally as well as in Côte d'Ivoire for financial crimes. "The judge decides, but a priori, there are so many damning facts, I think it will be hard to escape the prison," he argued. According to his calculations, his predecessor bought illegally for one billion euros in arms over the past five years.
Alassane Ouattara estimated diversions "hundreds of billions." The wife of former Head of State, Simone Gbagbo, and most officials in his camp are also held in the north. The current president promised that if some of the soldiers who fought for him had committed crimes, as is suspected, "the investigation will be made.
They will be before the judge if it is proven. "Furthermore, the investigation into the disappearance of four foreigners, including two French nationals, kidnapped at Novotel Abidjan on April 4, progress, liberation note Friday." A source close to the case , it indicates that the chances of finding them alive are almost nil.
The investigation revealed that the four men were taken inside the presidential palace, close to the Novotel in an annex of the Republican Guard, a body fully acquired the former President Laurent Gbagbo. "Accomplices the kidnapping were arrested, said Alassane Ouattara, May 22, France 24. 
A crisis that ended with the arrest of Laurent Gbagbo on 11 April. "Côte d'Ivoire needs 15 to 20 billion euros out of poverty and economic agony and I count on the G8," he told Europe 1 radio the new Ivorian President invited to the summit in Deauville. "President Nicolas Sarkozy has planned a program of debt reduction and development of two billion euros.
Of course, I want a little more to the President [U.S.] Obama," he said. Alassane Ouattara also wants France to maintain on site the Licorne force, which is under UN mandate, but that ls other troops are "reactive [ed]" to fight terrorism and drug trafficking. "It will take over the defense agreement, military cooperation with France.
There will be no secret clause," he said. The Ivorian president said he would propose to Laurent Gbagbo's party to sit in the government to be formed after parliamentary elections due by the end of the year and would establish a procedure for reconciliation without abandoning the prosecution of violent crimes.
"Côte d'Ivoire must break the impunity," he said. Justice accuses Gbagbo of extortion, embezzlement, and appeals to hatred. Ouattara wants the International Criminal Court (ICC) the judge for any serious crimes, like crimes against humanity. Alassane Ouattara, it's inevitable incarceration of Laurent Gbagbo, currently under house arrest.
He wants to see it pursued internationally as well as in Côte d'Ivoire for financial crimes. "The judge decides, but a priori, there are so many damning facts, I think it will be hard to escape the prison," he argued. According to his calculations, his predecessor bought illegally for one billion euros in arms over the past five years.
Alassane Ouattara estimated diversions "hundreds of billions." The wife of former Head of State, Simone Gbagbo, and most officials in his camp are also held in the north. The current president promised that if some of the soldiers who fought for him had committed crimes, as is suspected, "the investigation will be made.
They will be before the judge if it is proven. "Furthermore, the investigation into the disappearance of four foreigners, including two French nationals, kidnapped at Novotel Abidjan on April 4, progress, liberation note Friday." A source close to the case , it indicates that the chances of finding them alive are almost nil.
The investigation revealed that the four men were taken inside the presidential palace, close to the Novotel in an annex of the Republican Guard, a body fully acquired the former President Laurent Gbagbo. "Accomplices the kidnapping were arrested, said Alassane Ouattara, May 22, France 24.
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