Pressure is growing on the military rulers in the Ivory Coast to return the country to democracy, with the European Union asking for consultations and the United Nations sending a delegation to Abidjan.

The European Union said it wanted talks to assess the situation and if necessary to remedy it.

The new military leader, Robert Guei, said after he took power in last month's coup that he wouldn't repay millions of dollars of missing EU money that the former Ivorian government had promised to reimburse.

Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund has said it will not resume aid to Ivory Coast until it has a democratically-elected government.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service