The African Union Wednesday blamed the self-proclaimed president Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, the failure of negotiations so far to resolve the crisis in the cocoa-producing countries of West Africa.
"There has been progress in negotiations, but Gbagbo has reneged on its earlier agreement to lift the blockade, leading to and from the Hotel du Golf, where (President Elect), Alassane Ouattara is to stay," said A spokesman for the Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, the AU Mediator.
"Gbagbo should resign to make way for Ouattara which have legitimately won the election," said Odinga, Salim Lone representative, speaking on behalf of the African Union and Economic Community of West African States of the West.
"The demand to lift the blockade was because the African Union argues that it is difficult to have discussions with a prisoner," Lone said.
Ouattara is entrenched in a hotel in Abidjan under the protection of UN peacekeepers and the UN has accused Gbagbo's supporters for a series of attacks against UN vehicles and troops in the last week.
An independent electoral commission, said Ouattara winner of presidential elections in November the country but Gbagbo, the owner, refused to retreat.
Odinga's time to leave the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Mali. He fills the heads of state in each country to discuss the Ivorian crisis, said Lone, Odinga denies that he had "given up ... to find a solution to the crisis.
"He is still committed to the African Union and ECOWAS first find a peaceful solution to the crisis. The use of force is a last resort," said Lone.
UN Security Council is expected to vote Wednesday to send more troops to Ivory Coast in 2000, when the whole operation has more than 11,000 soldiers and police.
The vote was originally scheduled for Tuesday, but diplomats said the Security Council was delayed because Russia had opposed the "politics" in the draft resolution.
"Tomorrow, we will adopt the Decision," Ambassador Ivan Barbalic Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Council president this month, told reporters Tuesday.
Asked if the disagreements between Member States has led to delays Barbalic said: "There is no disagreement. It will be adopted. "
Security Council should approve the increase of unanimity, a diplomat from a council member told CNN Monday. UN officials called up to 2,000 more peacekeepers in early January.
Foreign Minister of President Gbagbo, Alcide Djedje said this month that the peacekeepers were "complicit in the rebellion" and that the government has set "no more confidence in the UN"
The row has raised fears of a renewal of blood shortly after a civil war erupted in 2002. More than 25,000 Ivorians have fled into neighboring Liberia, the current crisis began, reported the High Commissioner for Refugees last week.
ECOWAS has threatened to use "legitimate power" to remove Gbagbo, who met Monday at the African Union mediator Odinga.
The West African nation has been ravaged by civil war from 2002 to 2007, when an agreement has left the country divided between north and south. The 2010 elections came with high expectations that it would open a new chapter in U.S. history.