Secretary General of UN has discarded the call for UN troop to depart from Ivory Coast as tension rise after last president elections.
The UN and major powers have recognised Mr Gbagbo's rival, Alassane Ouattara, as the winner of the 28, Nov poll. Mr Gbagbo insist he has won. Mr Ouattara is currently under UN security in a hotel in Abidjan.
In a account read out on national T.V on Saturday, government spokes-woman Jacqueline Oble said Mr Gbagbo had "requested the immediate departure of the Unoci and the French forces supporting it".
The UN force, she added, had "interfered seriously in the internal affairs of Ivory Coast".
previously, the UN said one of its patrol had come below fire as it enter the mission compound in Abidjan, the country's main city.
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