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Pro-Government Protests Continue in Ivory Coast
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=109EA67:3919ACA Demonstrators
remain in streets of Abidjan, denouncing foreign mediators who called
for parliament to be dissolved Demonstrators remain in the streets of
Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, denouncing foreign mediators who
called for parliament to be dissolved.

VOA correspondent Joe Bavier says supporters of President Laurent
Gbagbo have manned barricades throughout the city.  He says that
several hundred of them massed outside the French embassy Tuesday.

Their protests began Monday, one day after an international working
group assigned to oversee a U.N. peace plan in Ivory Coast recommended
that parliament's mandate not be extended. 

The lawmakers' term of office expired last month, but Ivory Coast's
Constitutional Council has said parliament should continue to meet. 
The chamber is controlled by supporters of President Gbagbo.

The United Nations has been trying to move Ivory Coast toward peace
following a 2002 civil war that divided the country into a rebel-held
north and government-held south.

Some information for this report was provided by Reuters.