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COTE D'IVOIRE / DISMANTLING MILITIA
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STORY: COTE D'IVOIRE / DISMANTLING MILITIAS
TRT: 2.33
SOURCE: ONUCI
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 MAY 2007 - GUIGLO, WESTERN COTE D'IVOIRE
1. Wide shot, arrival of Abou Moussa, Interim Chief of ONUCI and UNPOL Commissioner Critian Chaumont
2. Zoom out, snipers on top of a building securing the area to site of dismantling
3. Med shot, Chief of the National Armed Forces, General Philippe Mangou reviewing troops
4. Various shots. groups of militias jumping out of trucks
5. Various shots, militiamen chanting and dancing
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Maho Glofei, chief of the West Resistance Armed Forces (FRGO)
"We are a force, those who refused to die and we have organized ourselves as a matter of survival."
7. Various shots, Maho Glofei handing over weapons to President Gbagbo
8. Med shot, Abou Moussa receiving weapons
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Abou Moussa:
"Be reassured that the UN wants a reconciliated Cote d'Ivoire. With a resumed, continued and sincere dialogue, with all its sons, which were once the actors of the Ivorian miracle. They are now about to achieve a successful way out of the crisis."
10. Wide shot, group of young people chanting "We want Peace!"
11. Various shots, UN peacekeepers collecting weapons
12. Med shot, Abou Moussa setting fire to a pile of weapons
13. Close up, weapons burning
The UN Mission in Cote d'Ivoire (ONUCI) says militia groups which backed
the government in Cote d'Ivoire's 2002-2003 civil war completed their disarmament on Saturday, in accordance with the terms of the Ouagadougou agreement.
President Laurent Gbagbo along with militia leaders and other officials
attended a handover of weapons ceremony in the town of Guiglo
So far officials say 1,000 weapons have been collected from the militia who claim to be 15,000 strong.
ONUCI interim chief Abou Moussa set light to a symbolic pile of guns thrown into a pit while onlookers cheered.
Cote d'Ivoire has been divided between a rebel-held north and government-controlled south since disagreements over land and citizenship sparked a civil war in 2002. While the Ivorian army held much of the south, in the south-west the government relied mostly on armed militias to ensure their home region did not fall into rebel hands.
The current national disarmament programme requires that both pro- and anti-government fighters disarm as part of a series of moves to end the country's a four-year political impasse. Arms are to be collected from former rebel Forces Nouvelles at their main strongholds including Bouake, Man and Korhogo.