Ivory Coast: Ivory Coast reform must go to referendum-president

Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo has said that rules on who is eligible to become head of state will be decided by referendum and only after rebels start disarming. An amendment to permit presidential candidates born of one instead of two parents of Ivorian origin would allow Alassane Ouattara, a former top International Monetary Fund official and arch-rival of Gbagbo who is popular in the rebel-held north of the country, to stand for president in elections scheduled for 2005.