Botswana president calls for Ivory Coast's leader to accept defeat The international reaction to the crisis in Ivory Coast has been growing. The European Union says it is ready to consider sanctions against Ivory Coast if the political crisis was not quickly resolved, and the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has called on the president of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo to step down. On the continent, Botswana's President Khama Ian Khama has strongly condemned the situation in Ivory coast saying that Laurent Gbagbo should be a "true statesman and step aside". President Khama spoke to Focus on Africa's Veronique Edwards on the line from Gaborone.-- ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤