• Country/entity

  Cote d'Ivoire
  

• Region

  Africa (excl MENA)
  

• Agreement name

  Accord de Cessez-le-Feu

• Date

  3 May 2003

• Agreement status

  Multiparty signed/agreed

• Interim arrangement

  Yes

• Agreement/conflict level

  Intrastate/intrastate conflict ( Ivorian Civil War (2002 - 2011) )

• Stage

  Ceasefire/related

• Conflict nature

  Government

• Peace process

  Cote D'Ivoire: peace process

• Parties

  For FANCI
  General Mathias Doué
  Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
  
  For the new forces
  Colonel Michel Gueu
  Minister of Sport and Leisure

• Third parties

  -

• Description

  The national armed forces (FANCI) and the new forces (forces nouvelles) reaffirm commitments previously made: immediate and definitive end to hostilities, acceptance of deployment of impartial forces (Miceci, Licorne) within a designated zone, and to allow for the free movement of people, goods, humanitarian agents, economic operators and the redeployment of administration. The signing parties agree to not recruit or employ child soldiers, mercenaries and non-Ivoirians, not to infiltrate and attack military units or armed groups, not to threaten the territorial integrity and human dignity, not to pillage or traffic and not to incite hate, discrimination, division or violence.

• Agreement document

  CI_030503_Accord de cessez-le-feu_tr.pdf | Download PDF

• Agreement document (original language)

  CI_030503_Accord de cessez-le-feu.pdf | Download PDF

Groups

Gender

State definition

Governance

Power sharing

Human rights and equality

Rights related issues

Rights institutions

Justice sector reform

Socio-economic reconstruction

Land, property and environment

Security sector

Transitional justice

Implementation

Full text of the ceasefire agreement

In accordance with the provisions in the final communiqué of the Kara summit in Togo, organised on April 26, 2003.

Conscious that the persistence of confrontations in Côte d’Ivoire represents a major obstacle to the process of peace and reconciliation.

Anxious to end the suffering of the Ivorian people and to prohibit any acts which contravene international humanitarian law.

Wishing to re-establish and secure the administrative and economic space in Côte d’Ivoire as soon as possible.

The National Armed Forces of Côte d’Ivoire (Forces armées de Côte d'Ivoire, FANCI) and the new forces reaffirm their existing commitments:

Agree to an immediate and definitive end to hostilities throughout the national territory and in particular in the Ivorian Grand Ouest;

Undertake throughout the national territory to refrain from committing any hostile acts or undertaking any activities which may constitute a violation of the present agreement;

Accept the redeployment of the impartial forces (Miceci, Licorne) inside the zone of confidence determined by mutual agreement between the signatories;

Undertake to do everything necessary to enable the free circulation of persons, goods, commercial enterprises and humanitarian agencies, as well as the redeployment of the administration in the best conditions of general security conditions possible throughout the national territory;

Undertake to refrain from the following activities which represent violations of the present agreement:

the recruitment and deployment of child soldiers, mercenaries or persons without Ivoirian nationality, outside the framework of the agreements regularly agreed by the Ivoirian State;

infiltration, circulation and attacks by military units and armed groups;

attacks on the integrity of the national territory and on human dignity;

acts of pillage and trafficking;

any incitement to hatred, discrimination, division and violence.

The signatory parties consider that the scrupulous respect of this agreement is an essential condition for the implementation of the peace process, which should lead to the rapid restoration of the authority of the State throughout the national territory, re-establishing the integrity of the national territory and to a return to normal life in Côte d’Ivoire.

This agreement is effective from Sunday May 4, 2003, at 00.00 hours TU.

Done at Abidjan, May 3, 2003

For FANCI

General Mathias Doué

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces

For the new forces

Colonel Michel Gueu

Minister of Sport and Leisure