Ivorian Popular Front pro Gbagbo on Monday confirmed the arrival of Laurent Gbagbo to the Ivory Coast on the afternoon of June 17. His formation, which no longer speaks of a triumphant welcome, welcomed the announcement that it will be able to use the presidential pavilion at the airport to receive the former president.
“President Alassane Ouattara has decided to give the presidential pavilion to welcome President Laurent Gbagbo,” Assoua Adou, secretary general of the pro-Gbagbo Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), told a news conference on Monday. He greeted “a strong message” and thanked Alassane Ouattara “solemnly” “for this gesture” in favor of national reconciliation.
The former Ivorian president will return to his country with a regular flight from Brussels, which will land at 15.45 (local time and UTC) at Abidjan International Airport, reminded Assoa Adou.
If the FPI-GOR’s Secretary General no longer speaks of a triumphant welcome at the airport, he wants to highlight the spirit of reconciliation that must animate the militants. This gentleman arrives and before he arrives he tells us: lead a national campaign. for national reconciliation, because the Ivory Coast must be reunited, the children of the country must be reunited, said Assoa Adou. We must walk the path of progress and reconciliation. So I ask all these followers to be in this spirit, not to respond to provocations – because they will provoke us – to avoid provocations, not to respond to insults and to tell everyone who shows that they are not happy: the most important thing the thing is to come together to rebuild a country into a country, a land of brotherhood as our national anthem says. “
The current Ivorian president authorized his former rival to return to the Ivory Coast following his acquittal of humanity by the International Criminal Court in The Hague at the end of March.
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