Ivorian President Gbagbo appoints electoral commission members.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Excerpt from report by Radio France Internationale on 24 September

[Presenter] In Cote d'Ivoire, [President] Laurent Gbagbo has signed a decree appointing members of the Independent Electoral Commission [IEC]. The IEC will be composed of 31 members, majority of whom will be representatives of political parties who are signatories of the Marcoussis peace agreements. One of the commission's first tasks will be to prepare the voters' roll. Here is Olivier Roger:

[Roger] Better late than never. That was the reaction of one of the opposition leaders to the appointment of members of the new independent electoral …