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Cote d’Ivoire’s armed factions move towards laying down weapons, UN says
Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire - Cote d'Ivoire's rival armed factions have taken an encouraging first step towards disarmament by starting to assemble their fighters, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Representative to the divided West African country has said in Abidjan.
The peacekeeping UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI, also known by the French acronym, ONUCI) and the UN-authorized French Licorne soldiers would carry out their mandate to ensure transparency by visiting the assembly sites of the national Defence and Security Forces (FDS) and the Armed Forces of the Forces Nouvelles, the main former rebel group, to see the progress on the ground, Pierre Schori said on Thursday.