Tagro announced Sunday that Ivory Coast troops would pull back into the peacekeeper-manned buffer zone, ending its three-day offensive on rebel territory.
"Let us cease fire," National Assembly president Mamadou Koulibaly said on state TV, offering to return to a more than year-old calm broken by Ivory Coast's resumption of attacks on Thursday.
Speaking to French radio Inter, however, Koulibaly accused French President Jacques Chirac of arming Ivory Coast's rebels, and sabotaging Ivory Coast's government.
"Ivory Coast has become an overseas territory in Jacques Chirac's head," said Koulibaly, Ivory Coast's second-highest leader.