Strasbourg, 26/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - Michel Scarbonchi MEP has asked President Cox to send a parliamentary fact-finding mission to Abidjan, following the attempted coup of the past few days (see the EU's declaration in EUROPE of 25 September, p.5). In a press release, Mr. Scarbonchi states that Parliament's development committee will discuss the situation in Cote d'Ivoire on 1 October. It is, he says, a question of "providing unequivocal support to President Laurent Gbagbo (…), denouncing the coup that so cruelly shook the country, checking for interference by foreign elements in the combats that took place and reaching a durable solution."