Statement [made on behalf of the Security Council, at the 5221st meeting, 6 July 2005, in connection with the Council's consideration of the item entitled "The situation in Côte d'Ivoire"]

Welcomes the efforts undertaken by the African Union Mediation so that the forthcoming elections in Côte d'Ivoire are credible and held as planned, and reiterates its full support to the African Union Mediator; recalls that it has endorsed the Pretoria Agreement signed on 6 Apr. 2005 and demands that all the signatories to this Agreement and all the Ivoirian parties concerned implement fully and without delay all the commitments made with the African Union Mediation and comply scrupulously with the timetable agreed on 29 June 2005 in Pretoria; affirms that it stands ready, in close consultation with the African Union Mediation, to implement individual sanctions provided for in paragraphs 9 and 11 of resolution 1572 (2004) against those who do not comply with these commitments or constitute an obstacle to their full implementation.

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