Côte d’Ivoire
23 January 2008
The Secretary-General’s Special Representative to Côte d’Ivoire, Choi Young-Jin, and President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso, facilitator of the Ivorian peace process, met in Ouagadougou to discuss ways of accelerating the peace process.
22 December 2007
The disarmament process was resumed.
28 November 2007
Two supplementary agreements to the Ouagadougou Agreement were signed between President Laurent Gbagbo and Prime Minister Guillaume Soro which called for the disarmament process to begin by 22 December and for national elections to be held by the end of June 2008.
21 November 2007
Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to Côte d’Ivoire, Choi Young-Jin assumed his duties.
18 October 2007
The Secretary-General appointed Choi Young-jin of Korea as his Special Representative for Cote d’Ivoire.
17 October 2007
The Group of Experts on Côte d’Ivoire reported resistance to embargo inspections as well as discrepancies between declared and actual armaments of the government and the Forces Nouvelles.
