Organization of the United NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations peacekeepers will remain in Côte d'Ivoire and to carry out their mandate despite appeals by President Laurent Gbagbo holders for all peacekeepers to leave the country, the head of the United Nations said Saturday.
"The Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon) is aware of the statements made by the spokesman for Mr. Gbagbo requesting the withdrawal of the United Nations in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) operation," the United Nations Farhan Haq spokeswoman said in a statement on the Ivory Coast.
"UNOCI will fulfill its mandate and it will continue to monitor and document of incitement to hatred and violence or attacks on peacekeepers for the United Nations, human rights violations" spokesman Farhan Haq said in a release.
Ban said that Gbagbo must resign and restore power to the leader of the opposition Alassane Ouattara, who won a runoff election last month, says the United Nations.
The Constitutional Court rejected the United Nations declared winner Ouattara certified results, says Gbagbo pro-Gbagbo has won the vote in high cocoa top world producers.
Spokesman for the Gbagbo as Jacqueline Oble read a statement on State Saturday TV say Government wanted UNOCI missions and French LICORNE forced to leave the côte d'Ivoire, "and opposed to any renewal of their mandate."
"UNOCI interfered seriously in the internal affairs of South Africa," she says.
The United Nations Security Council on Monday intends to discuss the situation in Côte d'Ivoire and the renewal of the mandate of UNOCI, expiring on 31 December.
Haq said that ban was "deeply concerned about attacks against a patrol of the United Nations and the Sentinel at the headquarters of UNOCI (Head Office) perpetrated by elements of Ivory Coast security forces apparently loyal to Mr. Gbagbo."
Prohibition was likewise concerned about attack on military observers UN Saturday observers, injuring two said Haq.
(Reported by Louis Charbonneau.) (Editing by Philip Barbara and Eric Walsh)
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