The wooded hills and well-watered valleys seem to have attracted settlement to the area early.
In 1989, Union Carbide paid a $470m settlement to the Indian government.
Mr. Yang repeated China's calls for a negotiated peaceful settlement to the conflict.
Nevertheless, it paid a $200 million settlement to the government that exempted the company from prosecution.
The airline and labor unions agreed to a compromise settlement to the dispute this week.
The city is divided by a branch of the lagoon into Plateau, the first European settlement, to the north, and Treichville, the first large African settlement, to the south.
In March 2013, a historic peace deal with the PKK suggested a settlement to the conflict was on the horizon.
The general contractor on the project paid a settlement to the family of one of the firefighters.
The United Nations negotiated a settlement to the war in 1991, and national elections were held two years later.
In May, the company signed a decree promising to do better and paid a $500m settlement to the agency.
Yet at the same time, hopes soared that a settlement to the 112-day lockout could be close.
