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11/14/2004:

"Gbagbo skips peace summit"

Abidjan - African leaders convened an emergency summit on Sunday on Ivory Coast without the country's defiant leader - still holed up in his mansion, after newly promoting the hard-line commander whose forces launched a deadly air strike on French peacekeepers to head of his armed forces.

As a French-led evacuation of Ivory Coast builds to one of Africa's largest, French President Jacques Chirac denounced President Laurent Gbagbo's "questionable regime" - and said France, Ivory Coast's former colonial ruler, would not tolerate much more.

"We do not want to allow a system to develop that would lead only to anarchy or a regime of a fascist nature," Chirac told an audience in the southern French city of Marseille.

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