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FM AMEMBASSY ABIDJAN
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UNCLAS ABIDJAN 000247 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE FOR SASHA MEHRA AND GERDA LANE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KWMN PHUM PREL UNGA IV
SUBJECT: COTE D'IVOIRE - WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT, FOLLOW UP TO 
SEC. RICE STRATEGY SESSION 
 
REF: SECSTATE 06 178055 
 
¶1.  On February 21, Post received a diplomatic note from the 
Ministry of Family and Social Affairs responding to Post's 
September 23, 2006 diplomatic note outlining questions 
presented in reftel. 
 
¶2.  Minister Jeanne Peuhmond indicated that the Government of 
Cote d'Ivoire is in the process of drafting a Declaration of 
National Policy on the Equality of Opportunity.  This policy, 
as drafted, would permit affirmative action and new 
strategies to remedy the lack of women in science, 
mathematics and high technologies and provide budget support 
for initiatives designed to stimulate economic opportunities 
among those historically at the margins of the economy. 
 
¶3.  The draft policy would also ensure that at least 30 
percent of representatives to peace talks and in 
organizations designed to maintain the peace and stability in 
Cote d'Ivoire (disrupted since the 1999 coup and turbulent 
aftermath ever since) be women. 
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