22:43 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe head of Ivory Coast’s highest court has rejected personal responsibility for the crisis which engulfed the country after last November’s election.<\/p>\n
Paul Yao N’dre overturned the results of the election, handing victory to Laurent Gbagbo and sparking a dispute which culminated in heavy fighting.<\/p>\n
Mr Yao N’dre – speaking after a meeting with new President Alassane Ouattara – said all Ivorians were to blame.<\/p>\n
Earlier, forces loyal to Mr Ouattara exchanged gunfire in Abidjan.<\/p>\n
The incident took place between the Invisible Commandos group – which controls areas of Ivory Coast’s main city – and troops brought from the north of the country.<\/p>\n
It was the most public sign yet of splits in the coalition of forces that brought Mr Ouattara to power last week.<\/p>\n
Following last November’s election, Mr Yao N’Dre as head of the Constitutional Court said President Gbagbo had won 51.45% of the vote, invalidating UN-backed results that gave Mr Ouattara 54.1%.<\/p>\n
The dispute plunged the West African country into months of bloody unrest.<\/p>\n
‘All responsible’<\/span><\/p>\nBut after meeting Mr Ouattara on Thursday, a visibly tense Mr Yao N’Dre rejected any personal responsibility for the crisis.<\/p>\n
“We are all responsible for what happened; the current president, the former President Gbagbo, citizens, the media that inflamed it, everybody,” he said.<\/p>\n
“There is no individual responsibility. It is not about individuals, it is the institutions. We need to rebuild Ivory Coast, everyone, in a spirit of solidarity, love and fraternity.”<\/p>\n
Mr Ouattara had been receiving allegiances from senior military officers and the heads of main institutions at Abidjan’s Golf Hotel where he has been based since the post-election crisis began.<\/p>\n
Stability is slowly returning to the city, says the BBC’s John James, although pockets of pro-Gbagbo militia continue to hold out in the western district of Yopougon.<\/p>\n
Mr Gbagbo was captured last week by pro-Ouattara forces who laid siege to his presidential residence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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