IVORY COAST: President of African Union and Congo Republic President Sassou Nguesso visits Ivory Coast and meets President Laurent Gbagbo and rebel leader Guillaume Soro

Record ID: 182521

  • Title: IVORY COAST: President of African Union and Congo Republic President Sassou Nguesso visits Ivory Coast and meets President Laurent Gbagbo and rebel leader Guillaume Soro
  • Date: 9th April 2006
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (French) SORO GUILLAUME, IVORIAN REBEL LEADER, SAYING: "President Sassou came in as president from the African Union to support the military dialogue, to say to the Ivorians they do not have the right to move back, they must advance towards peace. Together these are these engagements that we have taken bring peace about quickly -- going on with the process, organizing elections democratic and transparent."
  • Embargoed: 24th April 2006 13:00
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  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA69KUAC8I3DYKDJ9WRZBIL7UY6
  • Story Text: The President-in-Office of the African Union (UA), Denis Sassou Nguesso met President Laurent Gbagbo and rebel leader Guillaume Soro in Ivory Coast on Friday (April 7) ahead of meetings between the two he wil chair on Sunday.
    In Nguesso's first trip to the Ivory Coast since taking his position as head of the African Union. The Ivory Coast has been cut into two since an attempted coup d'etat of September 19 2002 which sparked an ongoing rebellion.
    The northern half controlled by the rebels of the new forces is separated from the governmental south by a zone of confidence kept by the impartial forces of the Operation of the United Nations in Ivory Coa (ONUCI), and the French soldiers of the Operation Unicorn.
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