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UN: CÔTE
D'IVOIRE: UN ENVOY TAKES PART IN TALKS ON IMPLEMENTING POLITICAL ACCORD:
06/9/2007 (MaximsNews.com, U.N.) |
UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com@
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- 06 September 2007 –
The senior United Nations envoy in Côte
d’Ivoire has taken part in a fresh round of talks on how to ensure the
successful implementation of the political agreement reached earlier this year
among the leaders of the divided West African country.
Abou
Moussa, the Officer-in-Charge of the UN Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI),
participated recently in the second meeting of the evaluation and monitoring
committee of the Ouagadougou Political Accord, UN spokesperson Michele Montas
told reporters.
The
accord, reached in March in Ouagadougou, the capital of neighbouring Burkina
Faso, is an attempt to heal the divide in Côte d’Ivoire, which has been split
between the Government-controlled south and the Forces Nouvelles-held north
since 2002.
The pact
calls, among other steps, for: creating a new transitional government;
organizing free and fair presidential elections; merging the Forces Nouvelles
and the national defence and security forces through the establishment of an
integrated command centre; dismantling the militias, disarming ex-combatants and
enrolling them in civil services programmes; and replacing the “zone of
confidence” separating north and south with a green line to be monitored by
UNOCI.
The
recent meeting, also in Ouagadougou, was attended by the Ivorian signatories to
the agreement, President Laurent Gbagbo and Prime Minister Guillaume Soro, who
is also head of the Forces Nouvelles.
The
meeting focused on several issues, including the deployment and security of
district commissioners, the military ranks of Forces Nouvelles officers and the
security of Mr. Soro. In June, at least four people were killed when
unidentified attackers fired a rocket on a plane carrying Mr. Soro as it landed
at the airport in Bouaké, situated in the north of Côte d’Ivoire.
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