Quotes of the Day

"You should not count on foreign armies to come and make him (Ouattara) president. I therefore extend my hand so we can talk."

- Laurent Gbagbo, Cote d'Ivoire's disputed president, downplaying military intervention from ECOWAS while inviting a new delegation

"In any country that records more than 200 dead in five days, as the UN has certified, it's war. When a country experiences a massive population flight of the population - more than 20,000 Ivoirians who leave their country to seek refuge in a country like Liberia - it's war."

- Guillaume Soro, prime minister of disputed president Alassane Ouattara, hoping ECOWAS isn't bluffing