Unity Government Is Possible, Ivory Coast Envoy Says
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (Reuters) — Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognized winner of Ivory Coast’s presidential election, would form a unity government with members of the party of President Laurent Gbagbo as long as Mr. Gbagbo stepped down first, the country’s ambassador to the United Nations said. World powers and African states have heaped pressure on Mr. Gbagbo to cede the presidency to Mr. Ouattara after the provisional results of a Nov. 28 election showed Mr. Ouattara as having won by an eight-point margin. Mr. Gbagbo “has followers, he has competent people in his party,” the ambassador, Youssoufou Bamba, said in an interview with the BBC that was…
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