webmaster
© Copyright DEHAI-Eritrea OnLine, 1993-2011
All rights reserved
From: Filmon (chaplin1920@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 06 2011 - 18:51:22 EST
Eritrean take a lesson from this.
U.S. controlled IMF installs one of its own as leader of Ivory Coast
Tensions in the African country Ivory Coast are escalating and many
countries are advising their people to leave the country. The U.S. and
Canadian media are blaming the tensions on the refusal of its leader,
Laurent Gbagbo, to concede defeat in an election that was plagued with vote
tampering and outright fraud. The U.S., Canada, the IMF, the UN and other
states and international organization all recogize the UN declared winner
Alassane Dramane Ouattara. Europe and the US is now working to strangle
Laurent Gbagbo financially to force him to quit as Côte d’Ivoire’s president
after an election they claim was won by his rival Alassane Ouattara. On
December 2, 2010, after a series of delays, the Independent Electoral
Commission of Côte d’Ivoire (CEI) declared Alassane Ouattara winner of the
second round of the country’s presidential elections *without presenting the
results* to the Constitutional Council for confirmation and validation. The
CEI claimed without providing any proof that Alassane Ouattara was the new
leader of Ivory Coast. Why call an election without providing proof of
claim? It all has to do with who Alassane Ouattara is and who he works for
and the U.S.’s insatiable need for oil. A major crude oil-induced border
dispute has been going on for over a year now between Ivory Coast and its
eastern neighbor Ghana. The election is being used to distract the World
from what is really happening in Ivory Coast – another dispute over oil
rights.
Who is Alassane Ouattara? To make a long story short Alassane Ouattara
works for the IMF which works for the United States. Say what?
Ouattara was born on January 1, 1942, in Dimbokro, Ivory Coast. He received
a bachelor’s of science degree in 1965 from the Drexel Institute of
Technology, which is now called Drexel University, in *Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A.*. Ouattara then obtained both his master’s degree in
economics in 1967 and a doctorate in economics in 1972 from the University
of Pennsylvania.
He was an *economist for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in
Washington, D.C.* from 1968 to 1973, and afterwards he was the BCEAO’s
(Central Bank of West African States)* Chargé de Mission* in Paris from 1973
to 1975. With the BCEAO, he was then Special Advisor to the Governor and
Director of Research from February 1975 to December 1982 and Vice Governor
from January 1983 to October 1984. From November 1984 to October 1988 he was
*Director of the African Department at the IMF*, and in May 1987 he
additionally became Counsellor to the *Managing Director at the IMF*. On
October 28, 1988 he was appointed as Governor of the BCEAO (Central Bank of
West African States), and he was sworn in on December 22, 1988.
In April 1990, Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny appointed Ouattara
as Chairman of the Interministerial Committee for Coordination of the
Stabilization and Economic Recovery Programme of Côte d’Ivoire; while
holding that position, Ouattara also remained in his post as BCEAO Governor.
He subsequently became Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire on November 7, 1990.
While serving as Prime Minister, Ouattara also carried out presidential
duties for a total of 18 months, including the period from March 1993 to
December 1993, when Houphouët-Boigny was ill. Houphouët-Boigny died on
December 7, 1993, and Ouattara announced his death to the nation, saying
that “Côte d’Ivoire is orphaned”. A brief power struggle ensued between
Ouattara and Henri Konan Bédié, the President of the National Assembly, over
the presidential succession; Bédié prevailed and Ouattara resigned as Prime
Minister on December 9. Ouattara then* returned to the IMF as Deputy
Managing Director*, holding that post from July 1, 1994 to July 31, 1999.
Prior to the October 1995 presidential election, in a move that was viewed
as being intended to prevent Ouattara’s potential presidential candidacy,
the National Assembly of Côte d’Ivoire approved an *electoral code*
which *barred
candidates *if*either of their parents were of a foreign nationality* and *if
they had not lived in Côte d’Ivoire for the preceding five years.* The Rally
of the Republicans (RDR), an opposition party formed as a split from the
ruling Democratic Party of Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI) in 1994, sought for *
Ouattara* to be its *presidential candidate contrary to electoral law*. The
government would not change the electoral code and Ouattara withdrew the
nomination.
*While serving as Deputy Managing Director at the IMF*, in March 1998*Ouattara
expressed his intention to return to Côte d’Ivoire and take part in politics
again.* After leaving the IMF in July 1999, he was elected President of the
RDR on August 1, 1999 at an extraordinary congress of the party, as well as
being chosen as its candidate for the next presidential election.
Ouattara’s nationality certificate, issued in late September 1999, was
annulled by a court on October 27.An arrest warrant for Ouattara was issued
on November 29, although he was out of the country at the time. Ouattara
wasn’t arrested because on December 24, the military seized power in a U.S.
backed coup. Ouattara returned to Côte d’Ivoire after three months in France
on December 29, hailing Bédié’s ouster as “not a coup d’état”, but “a
revolution supported by all the Ivorian people”.
A new constitution, approved by referendum in July 2000, again barred
presidential candidates unless both of their parents were Ivorian,
disqulaifying Ouattara from the 2000 presidential election. The issues
surrounding this electoral law were major factors in the Civil war in Côte
d’Ivoire, which broke out in 2002.
On December 2, 2010, after a series of delays, the Independent Electoral
Commission of Côte d’Ivoire (CEI) declared Alassane Ouattara the winner of
the second round of the country’s presidential elections *without presenting
the results* to the Constitutional Council for confirmation and validation.
The head of the Constitutional Council (contradicted the CEI claim that
Alassane Ouattara had won the election. Mr Gbagbo was sworn in at a midday
ceremony by the President of the *Constitutional Council* (the *highest
constitutional authority in Ivory Coast*whose duty is to *ensure that the
principles and rules of the constitution are upheld*) on Saturday December
4, 2010. Hours later, IMF groomed Ouattara simply declared himself to be
president of Ivory Coast. Since then foreign organizations have been
meddling into and violating the sovereignty of Ivory Coast by rejecting
Gbagbo’s presidency and endorsing one of their own as president. The
African Union, the European Union, ECOWAS, the United Nations, the United
States, and France are among the nations and international organizations
that rejected Gbagbo’s presidency. The U.S. controlled International
Monetary Fund (IMF) stated they would only work with a government recognized
by the U.S. created and controlled United Nations which was assigned by the
United States government the duty of certifying presidential results as part
of a 2007 peace deal.On 8 December, the U.S. controlled United Nations
Security Council formally recognized Ouattara as the winner, and, in a
statement, asked “all stakeholders to respect the outcome of the election.”
Without ever seeing the election results and contrary to Ivory Coast
election law that barred presidential candidates unless both of their
parents were Ivorian (years earlier an investigation determined Ouattara’s
nationality certificate as invalid and even issued an arrest warrant for
Ouattara), a U.S. created and controlled organization declared an agent of
the United States government as president of Ivory Coast. Why? Again it
is all about oil.
In May of 2010 Global Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE:GNR) announced another
big oil discovery offshore Cote d’Ivoire in West Africa. In May of 2003
Tullow Oil plc announced an oil discovery on the Acajou prospect in Ivory
Coast, confirming the hydrocarbon potential of the area, southeast of the
Espoir field.
The well on licence CI-26 was drilled on the Acajou South prospect
approximately 24 km off the coast of Côte d’Ivoire in a water depth of
3,050ft. The well is located some 9km from the Espoir facilities.
Well Acajou-1x was operated by Canadian Natural Resources (“CNR”) using the
Sovereign Explorer rig. It reached a total depth of 8,027ft and encountered
a gross oil column of over 250ft. A 45ft interval of sands at the top of the
oil column was tested at an average rate of 3,500 bopd oil. The oil was of
good quality 33° API, similar to that found in the Espoir field.
Brian O’Cathain, Managing Director of Tullow Oil International Ltd.,
commented, “We are pleased with the success of this exploration well, as it
underlines the potential of the Acajou area. The test rate is encouraging
for the economic development of the discovery. The well also encountered a
significant sand section below the oil water contact, which holds potential
in the northern part of the structure.
In September of 2010 Tullow made another discovery off the coast of Ivory
Coast and Ghana. Tullow said it had found what could be among the largest
recent oil discoveries in Africa off the coast of Ivory Coast and Ghana,
with the field holding a potential 550 million barrels. The recent oil
discovery has however sparked a row between Ivory Coast and Ghana over the
maritime border. Last year, Ghana appealed to the United Nations to extend
its maritime boundary by 200 nautical miles. Ivory Coast also has made a
submission to the United Nations laying claim to portions of Ghana’s oil
find that they say is in Ivory Coast waters. It is this conflict over oil
that the United States controlled IMF installed one of their own to be
president of Ivory Coast. 1.8 billion barrels of crude is at stake and the
U.S. wants control of iallt . What could be the outcome? Just look at what
happened in Afghanistan when the Taliban gave the Trans-Afghan natural gas
and oil pipeline contract to a non-U.S. company.
Oil and control of oil rights always = war. Oil was the reason for the
United States war of aggression against Iraq. Oil and natural gas was the
reason for the United States war of aggression aginst Afghanistan. Oil is
the reason why the United States is imposing unilateral sanctions against
Iran in prparation for a war there. Oil was the spark that ignited the
Nigerian Civil War. Oil is sparking an IMF sponsored civil war in Ivory
Coast.
*“The policies of the U.S. , since the end of the Cold War are complicated
and vast. They involve an intent to dominate and the use of international
organizations to advance U.S. economic and geopolitical interests. They also
include the conversion of NATO into a surrogate military police force for
globalization and U.S. world economic domination.”* – Ramsey Clark, 66th
United States Attorney-General (October 6, 2000) The UN, the IMF, NATO and
the WHO are the international organizations that advance U.S. economic and
geopolitical interests.
*Short URL*: http://presscore.ca/2011/?p=676