(CNN) -C?te d'Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara calm Monday called for forces that stormed the Presidential Palace and Laurent Gbagbo, whose refusal to arrested the presidential election results in the last year plunged the west African State in a civil war.
", We finally have the dawn of a new era of hope," Ouattara said in a televised speech. "We had hoped this transfer had different, but we need to focus on today."
He urged his countrymen to lay down their arms and said, he has the Minister of Justice start legal proceedings against Gbagbo, his wife and his colleagues asked. Gbagbo is at the Golf Hotel, the headquarters of the Ouattara and the United Nations take place.
Combat was released quickly after Gbagbo's arrest to stop, said Alain Le Roy, under-Secretary General of the United Nations Department of peacekeeping operations.
"I know most of the fighting has stopped," he said, adding that "there are pockets of resistance here and there."
Gbagbo asked and receives un protection according to Le Roy, who said, forces ensure the security of the wife of the former leader.
The UN official said "I President Ouattara understand, he wants President Gbagbo in Ivory Coast, to go to court".
The former President "is well and alive, and to justice, to be brought", said the country's Ambassador to the United Nations, Youssoufou Bamba. He and the French Embassy said, loyal to Ouattara forces made the arrest.
But a Gbagbo Adviser, Ahoua Don Mello, said earlier that Gbagbo's residence stormed the French military had. The French Ministry of Defense rejected Don Mello claim, saying that no French troops entered the residence.
Authorities try, move carefully and follow legal procedures Gbagbo examination, to bring a high said U.S. official with knowledge of the events of that are called decline due to the sensitivity of the situation.
The arrest is a "C?te d'Ivoire step in the right direction of normality, again" the source said, adding that the city is a wreck, with "Death squads, militias roaming (and) burning body on the roads.", which pose a major humanitarian challenge is
Speaking of the Golf Hotel, Gbagbo said his followers to stop fighting.
"I hope that people lay down their weapons and to return a normal state of civilian rule, so that the crisis can complete as quickly as possible," he said.
President Barack Obama cheered news of the latest developments in C?te d'Ivoire.
"This is a victory for the democratic will of the Ivorian population for much too long by the instability that followed have suffered their choice," he said in a statement.
Obama called on Ouattara and the people of C?te d'Ivoire, start now, the "Hard work of reconciliation and reconstruction".
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Gbagbo's capture "Sends a strong signal to dictators and tyrants." ... You can ignore the voice of its own people.
"Is it that the power to brackets, consequences for those," warned Clinton.
United Nations forces in the attack on Gbagbo's residence, were involved in said UN spokesman Hamadoun Toure.
He had previously said, extend the UN mission not to extract by the former President from his fortress.
But the United Nations and French troops have Gbagbo's forces, relying on their mission to protect civilians in the country.
The fighting left Abidjan with sporadic and hygiene and residents said corpses on the streets were left.
At least tens of thousands of people fled to neighboring Liberia, the fighting, according to Oxfam, to escape the international aid organisation.
The International Committee of the Red Cross, said that 800 people had during the conflict in the Western cocoa-producing town of Duekoue was shot dead. A UN officials the number of deaths of 330 in the incident.
Ouattara, said in his televised speech that he would established to investigate allegations of violations of human rights a truth and Reconciliation Commission.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week predicted that the outcome of the crisis in Ivory Coast would set the tone for other Nations in Africa.
"What happens in C?te d ' Ivoire has huge implications for the continent, the 16 presidential election will have this year," he said, under the French name for the Land.CNN's Jack Maddox, Sarita Harilela, Carol Jordan, Mariano Castillo, Niki Cook, Matthew Hoye, Alan Silverleib and Zain Verjee contributed to this report
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