Yamoussoukro IV Agreement - summary
30 October 1991
Signed by:
Amos Sawyer (IGNU), Charles Taylor (NPFL)
Heads of State of Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Mali and Senegal, and representatives of the Heads of State of Togo, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Ghana and Guinea
Key points:
Provided for another ceasefire;
Nominated a five member elections commission and five member ad hoc supreme court from the ranks of the NPFL and IGNU;
Renewed and affirmed the mandate of ECOMOG to supervise the agreement, including the resettlement of the country's displaced;
Stipulated that all warring parties must move into designated camps where they would be disarmed by ECOMOG troops;
Provided for elections to be held within 6 months.
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