The presidents of three West African states owed in Ivory Coast on Tuesday to tell globally cut off in office leader Laurent Gbagbo to step down or face taking away by force.
Local and world powers want Gbagbo to cede control to competitor presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara after elections last month motivated a disagreement that has killed more than 170 people and threatens to tip the country reverse into civil war.
Gbagbo's administration has said it would welcome the emissaries -- Benin's Boni Yayi, Sierra Leone's Ernest Bai Koroma and Pedro Pires of mantle Verde -- "as brothers and friends and listen to the meaning they have to put across."
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