For Alassane Ouattara, there is no risk of fire in Côte d'Ivoire

Alassane Ouattara, recognized by the international community as the elected president of the Ivory Coast, said Wednesday, Jan. 5 prefer a peaceful solution to the crisis in his country. In an interview with France 24 television channel, he denied any risk of fire or civil war after more than a month of deadlock caused by the refusal of the incumbent president, Laurent Gbagbo, left office.

To the question "The time did she come from a military option?" Alassane Ouattara said: "No, I'm for peace in my country. (...) I prefer a peaceful solution, a negotiated solution." Should there be military action, he said, it would be to "pick Laurent Gbagbo and leave the presidential palace.

The risk of civil war that I hear do not exist at all." "Laurent Gbagbo can spare us a military action if it returns to reason. He must agree to leave for the Ivory Coast is not subject to such a situation," said Ouattara. The Community of African States (ECOWAS) sent emissaries to Abidjan to try to resolve the election crisis occurred when Laurent Gbagbo was declared winner of presidential elections by the Ivorian Constitutional Council, headed by a close .

Alassane Ouattara said he expected "the response of the Conference of Heads of State of ECOWAS." The President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, who holds the rotating presidency of ECOWAS, said Tuesday that the Ivory Coast remains "an impasse". "We talk," but the alternative for Mr. Gbagbo remains the same, "he warned after meeting with African envoys: cede the presidency to Mr.

Ouattara, recognized by the international community, or risk being dislodged by a West African military force. If West Africa is working on a possible military operation, France has already warned that it does not combine them. The nine hundred soldiers of the Licorne in Côte d'Ivoire "are not intended to interfere in internal affairs" of the country, launched Tuesday, President Nicolas Sarkozy.

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