Chairman of the African Union (AU), the Malawian Bingu wa Mutharika has declared Tuesday, January 25 in the evening in Abidjan he would submit to African leaders the "proposals" of outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo to resolve the crisis in the country. In a surprise visit Tuesday to Abidjan, the Malawian president had an initial meeting with Mr.
Gbagbo and the presidential palace before meeting his rival at the Golf Hotel. To resolve the crisis, Mr Gbagbo has repeatedly proposed a recount of the disputed election, an option rejected by Mr Ouattara. "My brother and my friend (Laurent Gbagbo) explained in detail what happened and he also explained in detail his ideas" to end the crisis resulting from the Ivorian presidential, 28 November, has he said after a second interview with the outgoing head of state, who nodded at his side.
"I am going to send their proposals and views to the African Union, to his brothers heads of State and Government of the African Union, so that together, through dialogue, we can find a way forward" Malawian president added, without elaborating. At a summit Sunday and Monday in Addis Ababa, the AU should indeed look into the Ivorian crisis, between Mr Ouattara Gbagbo, president recognized by the pan-African organization such as the quasi-totality of the international community.
A delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will also meet Wednesday with U.S. President, Barack Obama said Tuesday a Nigerian minister. The emissaries of ECOWAS must also meet Thursday with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the Nigerian foreign minister, Odein Ajumogobia, a member of the delegation, confirming the ads on local media these meetings.
"Yes," he said briefly, declining to give more details when boarding a plane to the United States. According to Nigerian media, the president of Sierra Leone, Ernest Koroma, head of the delegation which also includes the President of the ECOWAS Commission, James Victor Gbeho. The mission of observers from the European Union has also issued its final report Tuesday.
According to its conclusions, the results were announced by the Ivorian presidential election the Independent Electoral Commission, which gave winner Alassane Ouattara, is "credible." The head of the mission estimated that the Ivorian Constitutional Council's decision to invalidate some of the results and declare the incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo winner was illegal.
Several African mediation for a peaceful solution have succeeded without success in Abidjan. On January 4, 2011, Bingu wa Mutharika had called Lawrence "Gbagbo cede power to [Alassane] Ouattara to avoid (...) a bloodbath," stated spokesman of the chief of state of Malawi, Hetherwick Ntaba.
The chairman of the AU, which had called on December 8 Mr Gbagbo to resign, had also said "disappointed with the slow process of mediation in Cote d'Ivoire", in the aftermath of the failure of one of them, added his spokesman. Ecowas has brandished the threat of military action to force Gbagbo to the exit.
On 21 January, the Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, the AU mediator in the Ivorian crisis, in Nairobi had also pleaded for a diplomatic isolation and financial sanctions to force increased Gbagbo initially. "If we fail to find a negotiated settlement that respects the choice of Ivorians, then we can solve with other measures such as diplomatic isolation and economic sanctions and trade", said Mr Odinga after his mission unsuccessful in Côte d'Ivoire.
Gbagbo and the presidential palace before meeting his rival at the Golf Hotel. To resolve the crisis, Mr Gbagbo has repeatedly proposed a recount of the disputed election, an option rejected by Mr Ouattara. "My brother and my friend (Laurent Gbagbo) explained in detail what happened and he also explained in detail his ideas" to end the crisis resulting from the Ivorian presidential, 28 November, has he said after a second interview with the outgoing head of state, who nodded at his side.
"I am going to send their proposals and views to the African Union, to his brothers heads of State and Government of the African Union, so that together, through dialogue, we can find a way forward" Malawian president added, without elaborating. At a summit Sunday and Monday in Addis Ababa, the AU should indeed look into the Ivorian crisis, between Mr Ouattara Gbagbo, president recognized by the pan-African organization such as the quasi-totality of the international community.
A delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will also meet Wednesday with U.S. President, Barack Obama said Tuesday a Nigerian minister. The emissaries of ECOWAS must also meet Thursday with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the Nigerian foreign minister, Odein Ajumogobia, a member of the delegation, confirming the ads on local media these meetings.
"Yes," he said briefly, declining to give more details when boarding a plane to the United States. According to Nigerian media, the president of Sierra Leone, Ernest Koroma, head of the delegation which also includes the President of the ECOWAS Commission, James Victor Gbeho. The mission of observers from the European Union has also issued its final report Tuesday.
According to its conclusions, the results were announced by the Ivorian presidential election the Independent Electoral Commission, which gave winner Alassane Ouattara, is "credible." The head of the mission estimated that the Ivorian Constitutional Council's decision to invalidate some of the results and declare the incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo winner was illegal.
Several African mediation for a peaceful solution have succeeded without success in Abidjan. On January 4, 2011, Bingu wa Mutharika had called Lawrence "Gbagbo cede power to [Alassane] Ouattara to avoid (...) a bloodbath," stated spokesman of the chief of state of Malawi, Hetherwick Ntaba.
The chairman of the AU, which had called on December 8 Mr Gbagbo to resign, had also said "disappointed with the slow process of mediation in Cote d'Ivoire", in the aftermath of the failure of one of them, added his spokesman. Ecowas has brandished the threat of military action to force Gbagbo to the exit.
On 21 January, the Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, the AU mediator in the Ivorian crisis, in Nairobi had also pleaded for a diplomatic isolation and financial sanctions to force increased Gbagbo initially. "If we fail to find a negotiated settlement that respects the choice of Ivorians, then we can solve with other measures such as diplomatic isolation and economic sanctions and trade", said Mr Odinga after his mission unsuccessful in Côte d'Ivoire.
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