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and Security Council meeting on Cote d’Ivoire.
Zimbabwe sits on the 15-member Peace and Security Council.
At the 16th Ordinary Session of the AU General Assembly in January, the council agreed to set up a special panel to make recommendations on the way forward in Cote d’Ivoire, which has for months been locked in a deadlock following contentious Presidential elections last year.
The panel was established after the mediator between incumbent President, Laurent Gbagbo, and challenger Alassane Ouattara, Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga was deemed to be unfit for the role.
Odinga tried to present a report of his “findings” to the media in Addis Ababa, before they had even been seen by the AU.
AU Commission chairman Dr Jean Ping had to call security personnel to stop Odinga from breaching accepted protocols.
The Peace and Security Council then set up a committee of five Heads of State and Government to investigate the situation in Cote d’Ivoire.
The council is supposed to accept the recommendations before they can be implemented.
Council chair, President Abdel Ould Aziz of Mauritania, heads the panel, which also includes South Africa, Burkina Faso, Tanzania and Nigeria.