Paris. .- The French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde, today announced that Paris will allocate 400 million euros to finance emergency needs of Ivory Coast and to help revive its economy. This contribution will be "at first, to finance emergency expenditures for the population, the city of Abidjan and the return to normal public services," the minister said in a statement.
"This support should also be used (...) to revive economic activity and allow credit" Ivory Coast "in the face of financial institutions," said Lagarde. France also called for lifting the economic embargo against Ivory Coast. According to the Foreign Ministry, the decision to end the embargoes imposed by the European Union at the request of France, could be taken this afternoon during the General Affairs Council of the Twenty held today in Luxembourg.
The same sources added that the situation in that African country is "human urge" and stressed that the priority now that the outgoing president, Laurent Gbagbo, has been caught, "help to restore acceptable living conditions" and restore the supply electricity and drinking water, disrupted in recent days.
In addition, said French diplomats are concerned about the 800,000 Ivorians displaced inside the country and 135,000 refugees in Liberia, according to United Nations data. "All our action tends to support the Ivory Coast in this new chapter in its history, which have begun to write," he said at a news conference the foreign ministry spokesman, Bernard Valero, who noted that "no time to lose" because "Ivory Coast has lost a lot of time" and its economy "has suffered a lot." Asked about the role of French forces Licorne mission stationed in Ivory Coast, Gbagbo has now been arrested, said the mission is "strictly limited to the implementation of the resolution (1975) Security Council United Nations ".
However, he did not rule in the future under United Nations supervision of the French soldiers to participate in the work of disarmament, if requested by the president Alassane Ouattara. 
"This support should also be used (...) to revive economic activity and allow credit" Ivory Coast "in the face of financial institutions," said Lagarde. France also called for lifting the economic embargo against Ivory Coast. According to the Foreign Ministry, the decision to end the embargoes imposed by the European Union at the request of France, could be taken this afternoon during the General Affairs Council of the Twenty held today in Luxembourg.
The same sources added that the situation in that African country is "human urge" and stressed that the priority now that the outgoing president, Laurent Gbagbo, has been caught, "help to restore acceptable living conditions" and restore the supply electricity and drinking water, disrupted in recent days.
In addition, said French diplomats are concerned about the 800,000 Ivorians displaced inside the country and 135,000 refugees in Liberia, according to United Nations data. "All our action tends to support the Ivory Coast in this new chapter in its history, which have begun to write," he said at a news conference the foreign ministry spokesman, Bernard Valero, who noted that "no time to lose" because "Ivory Coast has lost a lot of time" and its economy "has suffered a lot." Asked about the role of French forces Licorne mission stationed in Ivory Coast, Gbagbo has now been arrested, said the mission is "strictly limited to the implementation of the resolution (1975) Security Council United Nations ".
However, he did not rule in the future under United Nations supervision of the French soldiers to participate in the work of disarmament, if requested by the president Alassane Ouattara.
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