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COTE D'IVOIRE / AU PANEL WRAP
STORY: COTE D'IVOIRE / AU PANEL WRAP
TRT: 2.46
SOURCE: ONUCI
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 22, 23 FEBRUARY 2011, ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE
23 FEBRUARY 2011, ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE
1. Wide shot, exterior ONUCI Headquarters
2. Wide shot, meeting
3. Wide shot, Choi walking out of meeting
4. SOUNDBITE (French) UN Secretary-General's Special Representative in Côte d'Ivoire Y.J Choi:
“The visit from the African Union Panel has raised big hopes but has not yet arrived to a proposal for a solution. If you look at the press statement you will see that the Panel will meet again in Nouakchott, or probably Abidjan in order to this time come up with a solution on how to resolve the post electoral crisis in Côte d'Ivoire. I hope for the best.”
5. Wide shot, Choi walking away
22 FEBRUARY 2011, ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE
6. Wide shot, Hotel Golf
7. Med shot, arrival of the delegation of the African Union (AU) panel to the Golf Hotel
8. Close up, President Alassane Ouattara
9. Med shot, President Ouattara and South African President Jacob Zuma
10. Med shot, conference room at the Hotel Golf
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Alassane Dramane Ouattara, Incumbent President, Cote d’Ivoire:
“Your mission constitutes for us a last chance, because seven missions preceded you and all these missions had the same message for the former president and for myself; telling him that he had lost the elections and that he had to give up the power peacefully and that I had won the elections and that I assure him an honourable exit.”
12. Med shot, conference room
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President, Mauritania:
“We do not hold a solution in our hands, but with the efforts of the two clans, with the efforts which we shall undertake together, we hope to find an absolute necessary solution to this problem which affects the peace of not just Côte d'Ivoire, but the whole region and all of Africa.”
14. Various shots, Constitutional Council
The Special representative of the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General for the Ivory Coast, Y.J Choi, met today (23 Feb) with members of the diplomatic corps to exchange information following the visit of the panel of the five Heads of State elected by the African Union (AU) to help resolve the post electoral crisis in Côte d'Ivoire.
The Special representative stressed that this visit has “raised big hopes but has not yet arrived to a proposal for a solution,” adding that he hoped “for the best.”
Choi also indicated that the Director of the Division of the Human rights of ONUCI, Simon Munzu, has made a presentation of the interim report of the situation of human rights in the country, which should be released in a few days.
The members AU high-level panel arrived to Abidjan on Monday (21 Feb) to push for a final settlement.
The panel consist of Presidents Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania, Jacob Zuma of South Africa, Idriss Déby Itno of Chad and Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania. They met with representatives of incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo and the UN-certified winner of November's vote, former Prime Minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara.
President Ouattara told the panel that their mission constitutes “the last chance” for a solution, as seven previous missions had failed to convince Gbagbo to make an “honourable exit.”
Mauritania’s President, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who is part of the panel and was present at the meeting, said that they did not hold the solution in their hands, but added that with the efforts they were undertaking they hoped they would find a solution to the problem “which affects the peace of not just Côte d'Ivoire, but the whole region and all of Africa.”
Yesterday (22 Feb) the UN peacekeeping mission in the country deplored the excessive use of force against demonstrators in the city of Abidjan and surrounding areas over the past couple of days saying the violence had left dozens of people dead or wounded.
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