Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo out Tuesday still refused to concede defeat despite the collapse of his regime and demand a cease-fire of his army, reeling from strikes in France and the United Nations before the advancing forces Alassane Ouattara.
While France and the United Nations require him to sign a document in which he relinquished power and recognizes his rival as president, he warned that he was not concerned.
"I do not recognize the victory of Ouattara.Why do you want me to sign it? "He said Tuesday during an interview on French TV channel LCI.
After days of fighting with heavy weapons that have made "dozens of deaths" according to the UN in Abidjan, and a bloody post-election crisis of four months, the guns are virtually silent in the Ivorian city.
"There is a ceasefire but there is sporadic gunfire from youth groups who are not" fighting forces, said the UN mission ONUCI.
Some heavy weapons fire rang out in the Cocody district (north), which houses the presidential residence.
The people, the vast majority holed up at home, remained suspended on the announcement of the end of the era Gbagbo, while television TCI camp Ouattara broadcast excerpts from "The Downfall", a film about the last days of Adolph Hitler.
"Entrenched" according to the UN in a bunker in the basement of his residence, to which had converged in the morning fighters president recognized by the international community Alassane Ouattara Laurent Gbagbo insisted.
"I find it absolutely astounding that the life of a country hinges on a gamble of foreign capitals," he dropped.
"I go to worship and pray for the wisdom that lives in each other, so that we discuss," he said this fervent evangelical Christian.
"Whether we sit down and discuss it, but it does not sit, because it relies on foreign forces," he said.
"Me, I'm not a kamikaze, I love life. My voice is the voice of a martyr, I do not seek death, but if the death happens, it happens," he further explained.
There are currently "negotiations" about Laurent Gbagbo but "not yet reporting," said the French presidency told AFP. Same story on the side of the UN.
According to a source familiar with the matter, another stumbling block was the destination of M.Gbagbo: Does it remain on his land or the fierce nationalist will he forced into exile?
According to the French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, "two generals close" to Mr Gbagbo were currently "trying to negotiate terms of surrender."
President Barack Obama called the former strongman from Abidjan to "resign immediately", arguing "strongly" strikes the UN and France on Monday on its last strongholds.
The shelling on the heavy weapons of the pro-Gbagbo had precipitated the collapse of his regime after more than a decade of power and eight days in a lightning offensive of the pro-Ouattara, from the north.
Foreign Minister Mr.Gbagbo and among close relatives, Alcide Djedje played a key role in the epilogue in progress.
He went to the Ambassador of France, whose residence adjoins that of Mr. Gbagbo, to negotiate a cease-fire "on demand", he said, the incumbent.
The Chief of Staff of the army loyal to Mr. Gbagbo, General Philippe Mangou shortly thereafter told AFP that his forces had "asked the commanding general UNOCI a cease-fire.""We stopped the fighting," he added.
The former opponent of the "Father of the Nation" Felix Houphouet-Boigny, who became president in 2000 in a ballot already challenged, has never conceded defeat in the presidential election of November 28, 2010, a vote yet certified by the UN.He always refused to resign or go into exile.
But the fierce resistance of his troops in Abidjan, which were before the crisis about 5 million people, has plunged the city into chaos.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has reported "dozens of deaths" in recent days of fighting with heavy weapons.
The humanitarian situation "has become absolutely dramatic in Abidjan," the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs United Nations.
The UN has estimated that "hundreds" the number of people who perished in massacres last week in Duekoue, in the West - the balance sheets show, according to sources, 330 to a thousand people - and revealed the existence of a mass grave containing 200 bodies.The forces pro-Ouattara have been particularly singled out.
The African Union condemned the "misuse" and "violations of human rights" and again called for "mandatory protection of the civilian population."
A controversy has finally broken out on strikes UN and France.
The chairman of the AU, the head of state of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema, has condemned Russia and said their study "legality".
Conversely, Nigeria has supported this commitment. For Senegal, another key ally of Mr. Ouattara, the intervention was responding to a request from West Africa.
