Mbeki interviewed in Cotonou

On Recent Ivory Coast Peace Agreement

President Thabo Mbeki has hailed the newly-signed peace agreement between the government of Ivory Coast and the rebels as an important milestone. He says these developments will hopefully return the situation in the country to normality.
Mbeki says Laurent Gbagbo, the Ivorian president, sent a delegation to the Union Buildings to deliver a copy of the agreement yesterday morning. He was interviewed by SABC news in Cotonou, Benin where he was paying a short working visit.

The agreement was signed in Burkina Faso's capital Ougadougou on Sunday under the mediation of Blaise Compaore, the president of Burkina Faso. It would see Gbagbo remaining president while Guillaume Soro, his political foe and rebel leader, takes over

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