CÔTE D’IVOIRE / NEW GOVERNMENT

Opposition parties in Cote d'Ivoire enter into a new government, ending nearly a month long political crisis following President Laurent Gbagbo's decision to dissolve the previous cabinet. ONUCI

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:45
• Production Date: 4 March 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS OPERATIONS IN COTE D'IVOIRE - UNOCI
• Subject Topical: POLITICAL CONDITIONS; POLITICAL MOVEMENTS
• Geographic Subject: COTE D'IVOIRE
• MAMS Id: U100304i

Description

STORY: CÔTE D’IVOIRE / NEW GOVERNMENT
TRT: 1 :45
SOURCE: UNOCI
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 4 MARCH 2010, ABIDJAN, CÔTE D’IVOIRE

Shotlist

1. Various shots, new ministers arriving at presidential palace
2. Wide shot, new government
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Guillaume Soro, Prime Minister, Côte d’Ivoire:
“To overcome the crisis that we lived, we took a number of commitments in accordance with the agreements we have signed, which consisted first, to establish the IEC (Independent Electoral commissions are, in accordance with the agreements we have signed and in accordance with the commitments we made. This has been done Ivorians have found.”
4. Various shots, new ministers delivering oath
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Youssouf Bakayoko, New President, Independent Electoral Commission:
"We will work to bring as much as possible to each and everyone, the results of our work. These results will organize a fair election, transparent, whose results will be acceptable to all."
6. Wide shot, new Commission members
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Guillaume Soro, Prime Minister, Côte d’Ivoire:
“Secondly, we also promised to implement the Government, in accordance with the agreements. Today, you may have noticed that all ministers were present at the Council of Ministers.”
8. Wide shot, new government
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Gervais Kacou, new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Côte d’Ivoire:
"I feel a sense of humility in the pods of tasks, and a certain pride in serving the nation at this level."
10. Wide shot, new government leaving the palace

Storyline

Opposition parties in Cote d’Ivoire entered into a new government, ending nearly a month long political crisis following President Laurent Gbagbo’s decision to dissolve the previous cabinet.

The country’s Prime Minister Guillaume Soro said that the government had made commitments according to agreements signed previously. First such agreement was to establish a new Independent Electoral Commission (IEC).

The 11 posts reserved for opposition parties in a 28-member team led by Prime Minister Guillaume Soro were handed out in the morning today (4 March). Soro was the leader of the former rebel group, New Forces.

The formation of a government follows the creation of last week’s CEI. Gbagbo had dissolved the previous CEI on February 12.

The new government and CEI will work together to organize fair and transparent elections said Youssouf Bakayoko the new President of CEI.

Elections are expected to be held in two months as agreed among local parties and Blaise Compaore, President of Burkina Faso and mediator for the political crisis in Côte d’Ivoire.