ABIDJAN, Jan. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- Order returned to the streets of Abidjan on Friday after protestors ended their four-day anti-UN demonstrations.

    Roadblocks set up on the main roads have been removed and international airlines have resumed services to and from the country.

    Litter and wreckage left at the French embassy by demonstrators has been cleared, and only their slogans painted on the walls of the embassy await removal.

    Gas stations and supermarkets have reopened and customers couldbe seen forming long queues waiting to be served.

    "The four-day demonstration has brought huge inconvenience to our life. We were kept at home while our food and other daily necessities were running out," said a middle-aged local man.

    A government employee told reporters that he understood the feelings of the demonstrators, but he hated the disruption to the normal life of the city.

    The UN-mandated working group, tasked with helping restore political stability to the country, said that protestors began to disperse from the main demonstration sites at the UN base and the French embassy late Thursday.

    However, it said peacekeeping troops of the UN mission were still on alert in the wake of the violent protests that had shut down Abidjan and other cities in Cote d'Ivoire.

    The UN working group, known by its French acronym GTI, was set up to oversee the implementation of the UN resolution passed last October, which extended President Laurent Gbagbo's expired term inoffice for a year and led to the naming of a prime minister acceptable to Gbagbo and his foes.

    Supporters of Gbagbo have been protesting violently since Monday against the working group's announcement that the current parliament, whose mandate expired last month, should not be renewed.

    The proposal was aimed at easing the way for the UN-backed transitional government of Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny, who is tasked with disarming the rebels and militias on both sides.

    Cote D'Ivoire has been split since fighting broke out in 2002 between the government of President Gbagbo and rebels who control the north of the country. Enditem