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Abidjan, 22 October 2008... The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Y.J. Choi, on Wednesday held discussions with Ivorian Prime Minister, Guillaume Soro on the crisis-resolution process, with a particular focus on the electoral process. Speaking after the meeting…

Abidjan, 03 July 2008 ...The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Y.J.Choi, on Friday handed over an audit of the country's electoral map to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). Mr Choi explained at a ceremony held at the IEC headquarters in…

Abidjan, 2 December 2008...The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Cote d'Ivoire, Y.J. Choi, on Tuesday met with a 10-member high level delegation of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) party, led by its President Affi Nguessan. At the end of the meeting, which lasted more than an…

Abidjan, 3 December 2008... The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Y.J. Choi, yesterday continued his consultations with Ivorian political leaders by meeting the President of the Ivorian Workers Party (PIT), Francis Wodié, who was accompanied by several of his…

Abidjan, 8 January 2009.... The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Y. J. Choi, had a meeting on the Ivorian peace process with the President of the Rally for Republicans (RDR), Alassane Dramane Ouattara, in Abidjan on Thursday. "This meeting comes at a very…

Abidjan, 09 January 2008 ...The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Y. J. Choi, opened a conference of military chiefs of the UN Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI), headed by Force Commander General Fernand Amoussou, in Abidjan on Friday. Mr. Choi congratulated them on…

Abidjan, 21 January 2009 ...The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Cote d'Ivoire, Y.J. Choi, who is in New York for the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI), spoke to UN Radio about the Mission's role in the peace process and his hopes…

The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Y.J. Choi, left Abidjan this morning for Dakar, Senegal, to part in the 14th high level meeting of head of UN peacekeeping missions in West Africa on 5 and 6 February 2009, the spokesman for the UN Operation in Côte d'Ivoire…

Abidjan, 10 February 2009... The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Y.J. Choi, and the Burkinabè head of state, Blaise Compaoré, on Tuesday in Ouagadougou highlighted the need to establish an electoral calendar in order to ensure that elections are organised in…

Abidjan, 12 February 2009 The identification and registration process has crossed the 4.6-million-person mark and has proceeded without any major incidents. This is an historic advance. If present trends continue, the operation can be completed in Spring 2009. UNOCI congratulates the Ivorian leaders…

Abidjan, 13 February 2008..... The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Y.J. Choi, met on Friday with the Ivorian Minister for National Reconciliation and Relations with Institutions, Sébastien Dano Djédjé, to discuss the peace process. At the end of the meeting…

Ouagadougou, 16 February 2009...... The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Y.J. Choi, participated on Monday in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in the sixth session of the Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (MEC) of the Ouagadougou Political Agreement (OPA), opened…