Forces Nouvelles, UN - All of
them are retracting from the presidential camp

Le Mandat  -
"The electoral process in
Côte d'Ivoire is in a bad way. The many demands of the presidential camp are for
the opposition a real blockage in the phases to be carried out in order to hold
the election which have been expected since 2005. So after several extensions of
the identification and enrolment operation, of the appeals process and the
renewal of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) office, the presidential
camp is repeating the offence whereas the electoral process should resume in a
better way. This time, the presidential party is demanding the renewal of the
local Electoral Commissions, the revision of the electoral list and bringing
back the demand for disarmament before the election. However, to this umpteenth
demand, the plot did not work since they set the United Nations and the Forces
Nouvelles against them. For its part the UN organization, by his representative
in Côte d'Ivoire, Y. J. Choi retracted from the presidential camp regarding the
electoral list issue during the latest meeting of the UN Security Council.
According to UNOCI chief, this list, contrary to what the FPI wants that people
believe, is "credible". (...) In addition to Mr. Choi, the Forces Nouvelles
expresses its indignation at the "confrontational" behaviour of those who are
demanding disarmament before the holding of presidential election. For Soro's
colleagues, this is the expression of the presidential party's bad faith which
is showing that it does not want to have elections. In the final statement
produced by the ex-rebellion, at the end of its conclave which took place from 
06 to 14 march 2010, the Forces Nouvelles draws the attention of presidential
back to the Ouagadougou Political Agreement that both the Head of State, Laurent
Gbagbo and Prime Minister Guillaume Soro signed without constraint. [...]"

Disarmament and reunification
before election- the Forces Nouvelles are responding to the FPI this morning

Le Mandat  - "[...]
it is out of the
question to create a delaying debate on these disarmament and reunification
issues said Mr. Affoussy Bamba, spokesman of the FN. For the jurist, the
reunification of the country is a reality since the Flame of Peace was organized
in 2007 in Bouaké. The Forces Nouvelles who totally commits to the resolutions
of the latest meting of the UN Security Council, held on Wednesday 17 March on
the Ivorian crisis, wants to officially inform the national and international
community during a press conference. And this meeting unless anything unforeseen
happens will take place today Monday. According to sources close to the
ex-rebellion, the FN will counter all of the arguments of the presidential camp
which is plotting to ensure elections are not organized. This statement of the
FN could be the clash announced between Gbagbo and Soro. Because everybody knows
that they are no longer on the same wavelength."

KKB to the youths of Pdci-Rda:
"Where there is no choice between cowardice and violence, I will advice
violence"

Le Nouveau Réveil -«
The youths of
Pdci-Rda organised the general assembly yesterday to draw uo strategies to
finally win elections in Côte d`Ivoire. Their national chairman, Kouadio Konan
Bertin (Kkb), in his opening speech called on them to roll up their sleeves for
the final battle, which was to force those in power to go to the ballot boxes.
Below are large extracts of KKB's speech:
(...)
The youth of PDCI RDA
has the will to start the fight to the liberation of Côte d'Ivoire. We are not
cowards. The history of the PDCI RDA has taught us that it is a party of combat.
So get ready for future battles.
The rampant dictator
Laurent Gbagbo has left us no choice. History will judge us. The people are
looking to us and Houphouët-Boigny is monitoring us.
Mahatma GANDHI wrote : "Where
there is no choice between cowardice and violence, I will advice violence ».
 (...)[...] »

Blé Goudé to Soro: "Its
enough, clarify your position!"

Le temps  -

« People say: "Let's have elections, Gbagbo does not want elections... "..they
want give the head of state a complex. Laurent Gbagbo and Côte d`Ivoire were
attacked in 2002. Not because Gbagbo did not want to organise elections, 2002
was not even an election year.  So it is not because Gbagbo is refusing to
organise elections that the Forces nouvelles (Fn) attacked him. It was them who
brought war to this country.
We should not hide
this. So Côte
d`Ivoire was not attacked because it did not want to have elections. But
Guillaume Soro and the Forces Nouvelles attacked Côte d`Ivoire, because they
said they did not want us to regulate people's papers which they didn't have.
Did you take up arms to resolve the case of Ivorians or did you do it so that we
can give Ivorian nationality to foreigners without going through the proper
procedures and to put their names on the electoral list?
You should reply to
my questions. I heard « We are arbitrators... »
No. The Forces Nouvelles are
not arbitrators. They have all the qualities except those of arbitrators.
Because when you are an arbitrators it means you are neutral. Those who took up
arms to attack Côte d'Ivoire are creators of crisis. We have arrived at a stage
of the outcome of the crisis, where positions have to be clarified. There are
two sides: The presidential camp which wants transparent elections with a
credible independent electoral commission which is not under the control of any
political party. The other side is the Rhdp.
(...) Côte d'Ivoire
does not have a problem with elections.   (...)
So when people who do not have the right to carry arms, have arms and block a
part of the country  and send Ivorian cocoa , timber and cotton to Mali,
 Burkina Faso and other countries. A normal country in this modern world cannot
live like that.   There are state funds and there are economic parallels which
are developed and nurtured by people who are in our government.
(...).
When in fact they are paid by
state funds. Soon we will start the battle. You are Prime Minister in Abidjan
and you are head of state in Bouaké.
Why? [...]