(Updates with Juppe comment, second paragraph).
April 6 (Bloomberg) - talks on the release of Laurent Gbagbo, former leader of C?te d'Ivoire, took end in vain and forces loyal to the President elected Alassane Ouattara renewed their attack on the military units of pro-Gbagbo, said Alain JuppéMinister for Foreign Affairs of France. "The negotiations began yesterday with Mr. Gbagbo have failed,"Juppe said in Parliament today. " "They were interrupted and the forces of Mr. Ouattara have resumed their offensive."Gbagbo began to discuss his departure from the producer of cocoa in the world yesterday, after the French and United Nations forces has destroyed most of the heavy weapons of his army. The French soldiers and UN not involved in the current attack, said Juppe. 65 ?gé remains tangled up in a bunker under his residence, which was surrounded by Forces hunters Republican pro-Ouattara. Gunfire erupted in the neighbourhood and Agban military camp, in the district of two plateaus at about 6: 30 p.m. and continued during the day. "Fighting is continuing,"Meite Sindou, a spokesman for veterans, said by telephone." "Yesterday evening talks do not bring any result."Disputed Republican Forces ElectionThe launched an offensive from bases located north of C?te d'Ivoire, last week after a deadlock of four months following the controversial country presidential election on November 28. Gbagbo, who draws much of its support from the South, refused to accept the results, alleging electoral fraud. The United Nations, the United States, the African Union and all recognised European Union Ouattara as winner. "It is not a game of cat and mouse, it is simply the mouse now,"said Pierre Schori, a former Minister for Foreign Affairs Sweden who led the United Nations mission in the country between 2005 and 2007. "Even if he does admit it, I think he negotiates his exit," he said by telephone from Stockholm today.Cocoa for July delivery rose $43, or 1.4%, to $3,036 tonne at 10: 50 a.m. on ice American term in New York. Prices for the ingredient of chocolate increased by 34% since the disputed election, advancing to a maximum of 32 years of $3,775 a metric ton on March denominated bond non-reimbursed of C?te d'Ivoire from 4. gained 6.7% to 54.938 cents to the dollar at 2: 56 in Abidjan, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.Mass KillingsThe renewed attack at the time where Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief of the International Criminal Court Prosecutor, was "very concerned" about reports of massacres in the WestIvory Coast, according to a statement posted on the website of the Court. Office of Luis Moreno-Ocampo said it will continue to "gather information on allegations of crimes it y by the different parties to the conflict."Gbagbo charged yesterday France to intervene in the crisis, saying: he "entered directly in the war against Ivory Coast."While it would be willing to leave Ivory Coast "if my departure brings peace to my country", Gbagbo has said in an interview with LCI Paris-based TV channel, it is "far proved" that he would end the conflict. There was "no agreement on the political front," Gbagbo said, and he still believed that ouattara does not win the election of the President."Gbagbo says that his actions were not those of a"kamikaze".I love life, "he said on LCI. "This is not the voice of a martyr."-With the help of Pauline Bax and Olivier Monnier in Abidjan, Franz wild in Johannesburg and Michael Cohen in Cape Town. Editors: Emily Bowers, Philip Sanders.
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