Summary: Côte d'Ivoire: EU Presidency Declaration concerning signing of the political agreement (9 March 2007: Brussels)
The European Union welcomes the signing of the political agreement on 4 March 2007 in Ouagadougou between the President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire and the Secretary-General of the New Forces. It commends the mediation by President Blaise Compaoré, President-in-office of ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States).
The European Union calls upon the signatories to the agreement and the other actors in the Côte d'Ivoire crisis to take decisive action to implement the recommended measures so that the peace process defined in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1721 may be relaunched.
In order to bring the crisis in the country to a rapid end, the European Union calls on the parties to make progress on the crucial issues, namely: identification of the population, DDR (Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration) and the holding of free, democratic and transparent elections as soon as possible.
The European Union will continue to accompany Côte d'Ivoire on the path towards consolidation of the peace process.
The Candidate Countries Turkey, Croatia* and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia*, the Countries of the Stabilisation and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and the EFTA countries Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, members of the European Economic Area, as well as Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova align themselves with this declaration.
* Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia continue to be part of the Stabilisation and Association Process.
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