General Laurent Nkunda

The Prosecutor v. Laurent Semanza

His Excellency Mr. Laurent Dona Fologo, Chairman of the Delegation of Côte d'Ivoire

Switzerland Rudolf Schaller, Chung Yol Lee, Martin Strub, David Best, Diane Steber, Elisabeth Heer, Caroline Bichet Anthamatten, Laurent Medioni, Ambros Uchtenhagen

The Co Chairperson (Gabon) (spoke in French) The Assembly will now hear an address by His Excellency Mr. Laurent Dona Fologo, chairman of the delegation of Côte d'Ivoire.

France Didier Jayle, Patrick Villemur, Jean Pierre Vidon, Michèle Ramis Plum, François Poinsot, Claude Girard, Thierry Picart, Nathalie Richard, Stéphane Lucas, François Pellerin, Gisèle Clément, Olivia Diego, Pascale Laurent, Christophe Foulouier

Although the present whereabouts of Laurent Nkunda are unknown, the Group believes that the Transitional Government should use all necessary measures to locate him and address the issue of his ongoing impunity.

I have the honour to transmit herewith the text of the address to the nation by President Laurent Gbagbo on 26 April 2005, as part of the implementation of the Pretoria Agreement (see annex).

On 25 August, a statement attributable to General Laurent Nkunda, one of the main perpetrators of the Bukavu crisis in May 2004, was published in Goma, in which he threatened to bring down the Transitional Government.

Members of the Council called upon the President of Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, to do everything in his power to ensure the revision of article 35 of the Constitution, as he committed to at the Accra meeting.

According to Laurent Dubois, a political science professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, Noyer may pay for Sarkozy s battles with the European Central Bank. Sarkozy has a problem with central banks independence, and Noyer may become a scapegoat.

Endorses the observation of the ECOWAS Extraordinary Summit on the end of the mandate of President Laurent Gbagbo on 30 October 2005, and the impossibility, acknowledged by all Ivorian parties, of organizing presidential elections on the scheduled date.

Troops under the command of Laurent Nkunda were responsible for the killing of at least 14 civilians and 5 prisoners of war, the systematic rape of the women they encountered, many assaults and the systematic looting of the town.

In March 2011, its airstrikes in Libya (alongside those of Great Britain) thwarted Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi s troops as they prepared to retake the city of Benghazi. A month later, French forces in Côte d Ivoire arrested President Laurent Gbagbo, who had refused to recognize his rival s election victory, putting the country at risk of civil war.

Mr. Dona Fologo (Côte d'Ivoire) (spoke in French) The President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, Mr. Laurent Gbagbo, has been unable to join us here today on this great gathering on the Millennium Development Goals and on the occasion of our commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Organization, and he deeply regrets his absence.

In 2011, after Côte d Ivoire s President Laurent Gbagbo refused to cede power following his electoral defeat the previous year, the UN, backed by French forces, arrested him and transferred him to the International Criminal Court, cutting short a potentially devastating civil war. Nonetheless, their intervention came too late for the hundreds of civilians who were killed in the city of Duékoué.

One reason is that she is the only fresh face among those Socialists vying for the party nomination. Laurent Fabius, Martine Aubry, Dominique Strauss Kahn, Jack Lang, and even Hollande are all former senior ministers who neutralized each other, while Lionel Jospin, the former Prime Minister, decided to put an end to his political career after his defeat in 2002.

Powerful mainstream Socialists, such as former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, joined traditional leftist minorities in the party either rigidly euroskeptic or unrealistically euromaximalist to rally around refusal. This stance came as a shock from Fabius, a signatory of the Single Act of 1986, a party leader during the Maastricht Treaty negotiations, and Finance Minister when France adopted the euro in 2001.

In this tense climate, the northern candidate, Alassane Ouattara, a Muslim and former senior official at the International Monetary Fund, was denied the right to run in the 2005 presidential election. The winner, the southerner Laurent Gbagbo, then refused to concede his defeat by Ouattara in 2010, leading to violent conflict and fear of a long and potentially genocidal civil war.

When disturbed by a question, she usually replies, Would you have asked the same question to a man? Ever since Laurent Fabius took a hit in the polls when he mocked her candidacy by asking, Who will mind the children? , her opponents have feared appearing misogynous when attacking her, and when they do criticize her, she immediately assumes the pose of innocent victim, unfairly bashed by schoolboy bullies.

The meeting, which brought together Laurent Gbagbo, President of Côte d'Ivoire Seydou Diarra, Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire Henri Konan Bédié, President of the Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire Alassane Ouattara, President of the Rally of Republicans and Guillaume Soro, Secretary General of the Forces nouvelles, resulted in the signing on 6 April of the Pretoria Agreement on the Peace Process in Côte d'Ivoire (S 2005 270, annex I).

Under the auspices of the AU mediation, several rounds of consultations with the Ivorian parties, including President Laurent Gbagbo, Prime Minister Seydou Diarra, Secretary General of the Forces nouvelles, Guillaume Soro, senior Government officials and opposition party leaders, have taken place in Côte d'Ivoire and Pretoria, focusing primarily on how to advance the plan of action agreed upon by the Ivorian parties during President Mbeki's visit to Côte d'Ivoire in December 2004.

Like the eight year civil war (in what was then known as Zaire) that nominally ended in 2002, the current fighting involves many different local groups not only the Congolese government forces, which oppose the insurgents loyal to the Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda, but also the Rwandan Hutu rebels who were responsible for the genocide in Rwanda in the 1990 s and a jungle force known as the Mai Mai militias. It is a basket of crabs, one Congolese friend told me.