Alassane Ouattara, called Friday, January 14 to use force to make from his rival Laurent Gbagbo. During a videoconference with a think tank in Washington elected President of Côte d'Ivoire has also offered to form a government with Gbagbo's supporters "I do not want bloodshed," but Laurent Gbagbo must know that things are getting worse, pleaded Mr.Ouattara. He accused his rival of having once had recourse to force and be in the process of importing ammunition and about 3,000 mercenaries. "They come for the money," observed Mr. Ouattara. If they realize that things are changing to their disadvantage "they will leave," he predicted.
Earlier, the European Union increased pressure on Gbagbo and his family in Cote d'Ivoire in deciding to freeze their assets in Europe. The sanctions target 85 people - including the self-proclaimed president - and eleven "entities", according to diplomatic sources. They particularly target the oil, ports, banking, and the cocoa, coffee and natural rubber, sources said.
These 85 people are simultaneously visa ban throughout the EU, diplomats said. National society of oil operation in Côte d'Ivoire Petroci Ivorian society refining, ports of Abidjan and San Pedro, the National Investment Bank, the Bank for the financing of agriculture, Versus Bank are among the economic entities involved.
These sanctions are in addition to an initial list of persons under a visa ban in the European Union, which already included 59 people with Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and his outgoing wife, passed in late December. Among those punished are members of the "illegitimate government" of Mr.
Gbagbo, members of the Constitutional Council accused of having "participated in the validation of false results," the military or members of the bodyguard of former Chairman, newspaper editors, and advisers of Mr. Gbagbo. The new sanctions came as Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, sent by the African Union, should make Sunday in Côte d'Ivoire.
He had already made a first visit, unsuccessful in early January. With three heads of state mandated by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), he had met Mr. Ouattara and Gbagbo. The arrival of Mr. Odinga is done "in line with the missions [African] consisting earlier to say: 'We ask the outgoing President Gbagbo to accept the verdict of the polls and leave power peacefully," said Patrick Achi, spokesperson the government of Mr.
Ouattara. Gbagbo is under threat of military action in preparation in ECOWAS, it does not give power to Mr Ouattara. Friday, calm prevailed in Abidjan in the wake of attacks against UN forces. According to a report released Thursday by the UN, the post-election crisis has been 247 deaths since mid-December, including victims of ethnic violence not directly related to political confrontation.
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