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Mr Gbagbo appeared on state television on Thursday hinting at a compromise - one that would satisfy rebels and his hard-core followers.
Fred Eckhard, a UN spokesman in New York, said about 80 of the 120 staff in Ivory Coast would remain after the evacuation.
France's Defence Ministry said about 3000 of its nationals had fled the former French colony since January 26.
Rebel leaders spent Thursday arguing about whether to give Mr Gbagbo a last chance to respect the deal or return to a conflict that has killed nearly 5000 people, displaced a million and plunged the world's largest cocoa producer into chaos.
"The agreement will be applied," a western rebel leader, Felix Doh, said.
"We forced no one to sign anything in Paris. And Gbagbo signed it."
Since returning from the Paris peace talks, Mr Gbagbo has increasingly distanced himself from the accord. Initially he said he had no choice but to compromise with rebels since he had been unable to defeat them on the battlefield. But later he seemed to waver, calling parts of the deal only "proposals".
Mr Gbagbo was expected to address the nation on the peace deal last night, aides said.
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