Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo has called on the United Nations to name and impose sanctions on countries which helped rebels wage a civil war in the West African state, Ivorian media reported on Tuesday. A leaked report by a U.N. inquiry commission investigating human rights abuses since the war grew out of a failed coup in September 2002 said it had precise witnesses' accounts of "active support" by some neighbouring countries to the rebels. The commission said it had included the names of the countries involved in a secret annexe to the report, which also denounced the presence of foreign mercenaries helping both rebel and government forces. "Ivory Coast asks (the United Nations) to clearly and courageously name all the countries which it has identified as having attacked Ivory Coast ... to take sanctions and necessary measures provided for by the U.N. charter," Gbagbo said in a statement published by Ivorian media, including government daily Fraternite Matin. --More 2233 Local Time 1933 GMT
