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The European Union (EU)’s Council of Ministers decided on Monday to gradually resume aid to Cote d’Ivoire after concluding that the West African nation had taken significant measures to straighten out its socio-political problems.
The resumption of full co-operation will depend on a further review of the situation in January 2002, according to an EU news release.
The ministers said on Monday that a number of points continued to give cause for concern and required continued monitoring. Among other things, they said “the investigations and legal proceedings concerning ... acts of violence carried out during the year 2000 must be launched and/or accelerated”. These include massacres in October, in which more than 170 people were reported to have died.
“The appointment, in compliance with the principles of independence and neutrality, of the judges who will sit in the Ivorian high courts is still awaited,” they said.
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