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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (20693)	11/10/2004 4:06:07 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

OK. I was wrong. THE FRENCH CAN'T BEAT ONE OF THE SMALLEST NATIONS IN AFRICA! Thank GOD they are not "helping" us in Iraq. French flee Ivory Coast French nationals at the airport The French Government say it is not a mass evacuation Hundreds of French nationals have left Ivory Coast on charter planes as a peace deal appears to be on the verge of collapse. Many more of the 20,000 French nationals in Ivory Coast are planning to leave after four days of anti-French protests earlier this week. Now things are quiet, it's a good time to leave French resident of Ivory Coast Supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo accuse the French of forcing him to sign a power-sharing agreement with rebels who control the largely Muslim north of the country. Rebels say they have been promised the defence and interior ministries but this is not contained in the official text of the agreement. The army and two cabinet ministers have condemned the deal and said it should be renegotiated. Abidjan is reported to be quiet on Thursday and banks and shops have reopened in the commercial capital of the world's largest producer of cocoa, the raw ingredient for chocolate. Early holidays Mr Gbagbo has not yet delivered his address to the nation, in which he has promised to explain why he agreed to the controversial deal. The BBC's Tom McKinley in Abidjan says that the president has little choice but to break his promise and reject the plan for reconciliation. But France says that the man chosen as interim Prime Minister, Seydou Elimane Diarra, is due to arrive in Abidjan on Friday to start forming the new government. PEACE DEAL President Laurent Gbagbo President Gbagbo remains in power Coalition interim government named Non-partisan prime minister appointed Government prepares fresh elections Excerpts from the peace plan French nationals queuing for tickets outside the Air France offices in Abidjan say they fear this is the calm before the storm. "I saw a sign that said 'Kill the French' - and that's worrying," said Jean-Pierre Vivet, an aid worker from Paris. Air France suspended flights to and from Abidjan during the protests and some large French-owned companies chartered planes to fly out 264 relatives of their employees on Wednesday night. But Air France now says it will lay on extra large planes for Friday's flights, according to the Associated Press news agency. The French economic mission in Abidjan says that an estimated 500 people have left, according to the French news agency, AFP. One lady at the airport said that she thinks "things are going to get worse". "Now things are quiet, it's a good time to leave." French schools have brought forward their mid-term holidays by two weeks because of the trouble. The French Government stresses that it has no immediate plans to evacuate other French nationals but is continuing to monitor the situation "by the hour". Some 2,500 French troops are monitoring the ceasefire. news.bbc.co.uk