Haruna,
Go back and check UDP's track record. Lots of things happened before and we
never see a UDP statement. Just because PDOIS issues a statement your the
dormant UDP have to copy them. 4.5 years dormant and and .5 yeara active in
an election cycle....

That is why I called it copy cat


On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  Thank you Cous Fakoo Fakoo for sharing The UDP's position on Ivory Coast.
>
> The "copy cat" position is measured, dignified, and generous in spirit for
> the recovery of Ivory Coast. I wish to associate myself as a Gambian, with
> this UDP "copycat" position.
>
> Haruna.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fankung Fankung Jammeh <[log in to unmask]>
> To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sat, Apr 23, 2011 5:07 pm
> Subject: UDP Statement on the Crisis In Ivory Coast. - COPY CAT
>
>  UDP Statement on the Crisis In Ivory Coast.
>
>
>
>   The Gambia government's recent pronouncement on the situation in Ivory
> Coast and the efforts of Alasane Ouattara the legitimately elected President
> of that country to establish law and order in the face of his losing
> opponent's deadly intransigence that cost nearly 1500 Ivorians their lives
> and displaced more than a million people was at once pathetic and immoral.
>
> To hear the government frame its farfetched claims and feigned outrage at
> the imagined hidden hands of colonialists attempting to take over a resource
> rich African country ignores the realities of the events that culminated in
> the arrests of the former President Laurent Gbagbo. The international
> presence that the Gambia government seemed so perturbed by came about as a
> result of the civil war Ivory Coast found itself engulfed in a few years ago
> with all sides to the conflict agreeing to a United Nations supervised
> democratization process that was inclusive and engendered long term
> stability.
> Despite repeated attempts by former President Gbagbo and his allies to
> delay and obstruct key instruments of the process in a bid to cling to
> power, the international community persevered and finally conducted a free
> and fair election in which all qualified voters were able to participate in
> determining the leadership of their country. Mr. Gbagbo promptly rejected
> the verdict of his own people when it became clear that they had chosen to
> vote his opponent into office. Both the regional and continental African
> bodies, Ecowas and AU respectively, concurred with the verdict delivered by
> the Ivorians that Mr. Ouattara was the duly elected President of Ivory
> Coast. This verdict was equally endorsed by the UN, the European Union and
> US government and all those who place value on a free and transparent
> electoral process.
> Mr. Gbagbo stubbornly resisted every diplomatic initiative to end his
> illegitimate claim to power by spurning envoys from Ecowas, AU and direct
> offers of graceful exit from friendly countries that wanted to save Ivory
> Coast from further turmoil. With his increasing recalcitrance, the machinery
> of government effectively grounded to halt as he used regime loyalists to
> unleash violence on the civilian population and effectively threatening to
> plunge his nation back to the horrible days of the civil war.
> The Ivorian people and the international community that had worked so hard
> to help chart a democratic future for Ivory Coast had to act to safeguard
> their mandate pursuant to the relevant United Nations resolutions. They
> acted swiftly and justifiably to end Mr. Gbagbo's war against the Ivorian
> people and in the process, offering them the opportunity to pursue the great
> promise they represent as a prosperous democratic country.
> The Gambia government's refusal to recognise the elected President of Ivory
> Coast places it in a category by itself and is illustrative of an out of
> touch regime that is pursuing a foreign policy entirely driven by a crazy
> obsession with delusional western conspiracies. To be an on the record
> advocate of tyrants who refuse to cede power following a rejection by their
> people is utterly disgraceful and inconsistent with the Gambian peoples'
> strong affinity for democracy and the rule of law. The government's position
> on Ivory Coast does not reflect the values of our good people.
> The United Democratic Party rejects the Gambia government's approach to
> President Ouattara. UDP congratulates Mr. Alasane Ouattara on his election
> to the high office of President of the Republic of Ivory Coast and wish him
> and his team all the best as they embark on the important and difficult task
> of reconciliation, rebuilding and repositioning that country as an economic
> and democratic beacon in a region that is fast changing for the better as
> one country after another shed dictators and calcified negative approaches
> and embrace functional democracies.
>
> United Democratic Party Secretariat
> Banjul
> 20th April, 2011
>
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