UN General Assembly
1992

A few months thereafter the NPFL alerted some of the leaders of ECOWAS that it was not prepared to participate in an interim government that would, alternatively, be disposed to negotiating, under the auspices of ECOWAS, another proposal of its own. The NPFL proposed a snap election, to be held within six months, to be preceded by the encampment and disarmament of all armed combatants. ECOWAS established the Committee of Five, headed by His Excellency President Felix Houphouet-Boigny of Cote d'lvoire, to work with Liberians and help us reach an understanding. The negotiations took place in four different meetings, producing an agreement which, because of the venue, has become known as the Yamoussoukro Accord. This Accord has aroused declarations of support from the Organization of African Unity, the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries and the United Nations Security Council. But how has the NPFL reacted to the commitments it undertook? At the fifteenth session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS, held at Dakar in July 1992, the 16 West African leaders reached a clear