Ivory Coast's ruling Ivorian Popular Front party (FPI) is resuming its participation in the country's peace process, the party's president said today.
The FPI, which dominates the national assembly with other supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo, had said last week it was abandoning a UN peace plan in protest against a recommendation by foreign mediators that the parliament be dissolved.
International mediators had put pressure on Ivory Coast's leaders at the weekend to get the battered peace process back on track after four days of riots that showed President Laurent Gbagbo was resisting moves to curb his power.
Militant "Young Patriot" supporters of Mr Gbagbo brought chaos to the government-controlled south of the west African nation last week by attacking UN peacekeeping bases, vehicles and personnel with stones and petrol bombs.
The attacks, which also targeted French peacekeepers, drew sharp international condemnation and a threat of UN sanctions against the instigators.
The protests, which government security forces allowed to rage on unhindered, only halted after Mr Gbagbo and allied youth leaders instructed supporters to end them.
Nearly 7,000 UN troops and around 4,000 French soldiers have been enforcing a fragile peace in Ivory Coast, which was split by a 2002 civil war. Rebels occupy the northern half.