(CNN) - forces loyal to C?te d'Ivoire elected President Alassane Ouattara stormed the residence of his rival Laurent Gbagbo Wednesday, an Ouattara spokeswoman said potentially heralds end of a bloody conflict in the west African country.
The Ouattara forces are in Gbagbo's residence but have not entered it yet, Affoussy Bamba said from the main city Abidjan. She discovered heavy weapons in the residence, she said.
A spokesman for Gbagbo, Ahoua Don Mello, confirmed the residence was attacked and expressed surprise at the attack.
Gbagbo is ready, African Union proposals for a transfer of power to discuss, but can not speak of surrender before discussions even begin, his spokesman said.
He would not confirm that Gbagbo is in the residence, is under attack, but said he was in Abidjan.
"they get him and kill him try," Mello said.
Hundreds of people have rejected since Gbagbo, the results of the elections in November in the country producing cocoa was killed. The United Nations and the African Union told Prime Minister, Ouattara, Gbagbo, beaten, who was running for re-election.
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Nations United Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Gbagbo called Wednesday for Fig.
"I can not understand, why he refuses to relinquish his power against the entire international community," ban said, pushing the self erkl?rte President to think about the future and the security of his people.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, who was closely linked to events in the former French colony, said that negotiations with Gbagbo's failed because of his "stubbornness".
Ouattara said the conditions for Gbagbo's surrender, Juppe.
He said Parliament in Paris that French troops, not to the attack on Gbagbo's residence, rejection were involved in claims Gbagbo supporters.
A senior American source with knowledge of the location also said that negotiations failed.
"The way for negotiations with Laurent Gbagbo is over." "He has closed the door on negotiations," said the source, asked, named not for the sensitivity of the situation.
Gbagbo is "a person who does not accept that he lost." That is why we are here today, "said the source."
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Ouattara's powers have steadily on Gbagbo last week, was closed amidst claims of massacres by both sides.
An Ouattara said Gbagbo Representative leave she had no alternative, but the attack attack began on Wednesday.
"Negotiations with Gbagbo have failed," said Mamadou Toure. "Gbagbo decided not to arise, so that Ouattara's forces were left with no other choice." "Goal is to get it without damage of the residence."
"President Alassane Ouattara have to decide what happens next" added Toure that the country's Embassy in Paris and says he is in direct contact with Ouattara's forces.
Various Ouattara representatives said Gbagbo "will be put" CNN Wednesday.
The conflict between his troops and Ouattara seemed traced Gbagbo to surrender Tuesday after four months, but then he.
It "seems, as he lost it's meant... his mind, that there is something wrong with this guy," Patrick Achi said Ouattara spokesman.
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Ouattara's page directly on Gbagbo militants, put their weapons is, said the schmerzhaftesten.
"We can sit and wait for it appropriate" to the "humanitarian catastrophe" with views of the city, Abidjan, Achi said. The city of 5 million people "no more electricity, no more hygiene and facilities on the road" had, he said.
Ouattara's Abidjan forces entered on Thursday after an offensive, which swept across the country. When they arrived, the sporadic escalated violence that plagued Abidjan in the war for months after the elections.
Ivory Coast Ambassador to the United Nations said Tuesday he thought Gbagbo "know all about it."
"His forces were defeated." He alone now ", said Youssoufou Bamba."
Bamba said Gbagbo before court should go "because he has committed so many crimes" against civil and peaceful demonstrators.
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who was most important negotiators in C?te d'Ivoire of the African Union, said, however, Ouattara and others should take into account, so that safe passage for Gbagbo Angola, South Africa or any other country.
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Leading by President Barack Obama on down demanding were international Gbagbo step down immediately for the, most of the country.
The political chaos and violence has demanded at least hundreds of lives. In one of the bloodiest events even the International Committee of the Red Cross reported the killings of 800 people last week in the city of Duekoue-producing Western cocoa.
Juppe said Wednesday that all that remained, would leave to discuss such as Gbagbo.
"We have to ensure United Nations his physical well-being and that of his family, an important point is requested, and then organise on the terms of his departure," Juppe said on French radio. "This is the only links to negotiate".
Gbagbo denied in an interview on Tuesday, he planned, fight, go is called a man who "loves life."
"I am not a kamikaze..." I for death doesn't look, "he told France's LCI television."CNN's Saskya Vandoorne, Sarita Harilela, Zain Verjee and Richard Roth contributed to this report.
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