The President of Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara, welcomes two of his predecessors Koudou Gbagbo Laurent and Henri Konan Bédié in what he says will be the first of many such meetings. "I think it would be a very good thing for the nation to hear, to listen to my predecessors, their knowledge of the country" he adds, in an address to the press after the meeting. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES