Thursday, May 19, 2011

Ban will attend Ouattara inauguration as president of Ivory Coast

.- The Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend next Saturday's inauguration as president Alassane Ouattara in Ivory Coast and later held a joint meeting, the international body said today. A spokesman for the institution said the UN chief, who on Friday began a tour that will take you to Ivory Coast and other African countries, as well as the meeting of Group of Eight (G-8) in France will meet in Yamoussoukro Ouattara.

"Your participation in this event is framed in the light of special circumstances gotten to the democratic election of the Government of Ivory Coast," the source added. Ouattara was the winner of presidential elections held in the African country on 28 November. After the elections, President Laurent Gbagbo, who was ten years in office, refused to recognize the victory of Ouattara and tried, with the support of the military and police, to stay in power despite international recognition newly elected president.

Since then generated a political crisis in the African country that lasted five months and caused more than three thousand deaths of Ivorians by fighting between forces loyal to Ouattara Gbabgo and besides that included a military operation authorized by UN and its mission in Ivory Coast.

At the inauguration of the new Ivorian president is expected to attend 24 heads of State or Government, mostly Africans, which include those of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, Burkina Faso, Blaise Campoare; of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan and France, Nicolas Sarkozy, among others. Ouattara last week dismissed several senior officials of state institutions and pro-Gbagbo has also sent a letter to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, to investigate the most serious crimes committed in their country during the months of crisis.

The UN secretary general also moved to Abidjan to meet with international peacekeepers deployed there, and those responsible for the mission that the agency has in the African country and visited an IDP camp. Ban will also visit Nigeria and Ethiopia next week and then move to the French city of Deauville, to attend the G8 summit.

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