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Abidjan, Jul 15 (EFE) .- The president of Ivory Coast, Alassane Outtara, and former presidents Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bedie, held a meeting yesterday to exchange opinions on how to “de-escalate the sociopolitical climate” of the country, he explained last Thursday time ex-president Gbagbo on behalf of the three leaders.
While Bedie’s government (1993-1999) was overthrown in a coup, Gbagbo (2000-2011) refused to admit his electoral defeat in 2010, triggering a crisis that lasted until the following year and in which At least 3,000 people died, according to official numbers.
“Today’s meeting has been a meeting to renew our contact and sincerely exchange our views on all important issues,” Gbagbo told a press conference after the meeting, which was held at the presidential palace in Abidjan.
For his part, Outtara, the current Ivorian president, said that the three leaders will have more meetings like this in the future.
“Whenever my predecessors have time to return to these meetings, I will invite them to hear their views and recommendations,” Ouattara said.
According to the president, “it will be very positive for the nation to listen to us and to listen to my predecessors, in recognition of their experience and, obviously, also because of the political weight they represent.”
On July 27, Ouattara already met with Gbagbo in a historic meeting that was considered essential for the country’s national reconciliation process after the post-election crisis it suffered between 2010 and 2011.
After five months of violence between the followers of Gbagbo and Ouattara -whom the Ivorian Electoral Commission gave victory in the second round of the elections, held in November 2010-, the former president was arrested in April 2011 and sent to La There is to be judged.
However, Gbagbo was acquitted in the first instance in January 2019 and had lived in Belgium ever since.
Last March, the ICC ratified his acquittal, after an appeal from the Prosecutor’s Office of this court, putting an end to the first trial in this court in The Hague against a head of state. EFE
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