GENEVA - the United Nations warned on Thursday that died at least 173 people in authority over the disputed presidential election and have said it had failed to investigate all reports fueled concerns about a return to the civil war.
In a special session in Côte d'Ivoire in Geneva, Commissioner of the United Nations of Deputy human rights detailed hundreds of arrests and detentions and dozens of cases of torture and ill-treatment in the west African country.
"Unfortunately it impossible, all the allegations of serious human rights violations, including reports of mass graves, due to limitations of freedom of movement by UN personnel, to examine" Kyung-wha Kang said diplomats. "In fact, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General at gunpoint, stopped, as he tried to make such allegations."
Expressed concern about how political allies by Laurent Gbagbo controlled by State-owned media, who refused to leave the Presidency despite international calls for his fall after the Nov. 28 Runoff vote.
"The use of the national radio and television ivoirienne and some private newspapers to incite hatred and violence among the population and for the dissemination of false and inflammatory information against the United Nations is particularly alarming," she said.
David Kennedy, spokesman for the U.S. mission to the United Nations in Geneva, said the United States "deep by the magnitude of human rights violations committed in the Ivory Coast is concerned".
The United Nations and other world leaders recognize Alassane Ouattara as winner of the presidential elections. His Prime Minister urged to push the UN to consider European Union, African Union, and others, intervene, established Mr. Gbagbo from the Presidency.
It said the United States, ways to help discussing postelection violence in Côte d'Ivoire with other countries to suppress Wednesday.
"We are in discussions with other regional countries to see if there are ways in which we can strengthen the UN peacekeeping force," said spokesman p.j. Crowley reporters. "It could be that another way, a clear message to President Gbagbo send kind of strengthening could be."
He refused to name, which the countries contacted were noted but that Nigeria of a large force towards the African peacekeepers and France a former French colony interests in Côte d'Ivoire has at least 13,000 French are.
A Nigerian military spokesman said on Thursday that only by the President could be decided military intervention in another country, and a Presidential spokesperson could be reached for comment. ECOWAS is the regional block due to hold a meeting to the crisis late Friday.
Still, it has little international interest so far in a military intervention in Côte d'Ivoire, 2002-2003 suffered a civil war. The United States and the EU are sanctions which Mr. Gbagbo, targeting, his wife and his political allies imposing. Hundreds of UN peacekeepers have the hotel protection Ouattara was based in the Lord.
Last weekend, Mr. Gbagbo immediately ordered all UN peacekeepers from the country in an escalation of tension. The United Nations considers President Mr Ouattara and stay put, raising fears that un personnel and other foreigners in violence as tensions mount could be focused.
The State Department to leave ordered most of its staff due to the deterioration of the security situation and growing anti-western sentiment and France Germany also have recommended and leaving their citizens.
The UN has cause for serious concern about the participation of foreign mercenaries from neighbouring Liberia expressed the brutal succession wars until 2003 suffered.
UN peacekeeping Chief Alain Le Roy has confirmed that the Mission in Ivory Coast "has seen what appear to be Angola from Liberia and perhaps mercenary." He said to speak any of the local languages in Côte d'Ivoire.
Ivory Coast's 2002-2003-civil war saw the inclusion of Liberians battles on almost all sides of the conflict. The two countries share a porous, 370-mile-long boundary and President of Liberia hasn't citizens to engage in Côte d'Ivoire's latest political crisis prompted.
Wednesday asked what plans of the UN Secretary General on the mercenary, do Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said United Nations: "we believe that it is a concern that people from the outside and we in brought our will continue this in all various locations to increase."
Financial pressure is increased in an effort to force him out on Mr. Gbagbo. On Wednesday, the World Bank confirmed that it has frozen loans to the country. The Bank aid commitment to Ivory Coast was $ 841.9 million as January 2010, according to the Bank website.
Mr Ouattara also tried financial pressure to use force, citing the west African Central Bank (BCEAO), his access to state coffers cut off Mr. Gbagbo, civil servants and soldiers to pay make it impossible. Such a move could oppose the stage for mass departure and the hand Mr. Gbagbo.
Côte d'Ivoire was an economic hub for his role as the world's cocoa producer. The 2002-2003 civil war controlled the country into a rebel divided North and South of the Loyalists. Throughout the country officially reunited a 2007 peace deal, Mr Ouattara records nor its support from the northern half of the country where he was born while is Mr. of Gbagbo's power base in the South.
Mr. Gbagbo claimed victory in the presidential election only after threw his allies half a million ballots from Mr. of Ouattara's fortresses in the North, a step, the residents there angry long felt have you are treated as foreigners in your own country by southerners.
While Mr Ouattara has received the support of the international community, Mr. Gbagbo controls still the military and State media, the main source of messages in a country where international television and blocks have been since the election dispute began.
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