Gbagbo and the new Prime Minister Seydou Diarra, named to the post after French-brokered peace talks in January between rebels and Ivorian political parties, have so far failed to name a unity government acceptable to all parties.
Eyadema, Africa's longest-serving ruler, was mandated by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to resolve the crisis and has hosted peace talks in the Togolese capital of Lome between the rebels and the Ivorian government.
The parleys in Lome were deadlocked for weeks but ended with a ceasefire agreement on the eve of the French-brokered peace talks in January.
Gbagbo on Saturday asked a special ECOWAS contact group on the Ivorian crisis, which Eyadema heads, "to support different consultations under way (in Ivory Coast) to form a reconciliation government.
"The allocation of some key posts constitutes a basic problem for which I am trying to seek solutions with the prime minister," Gbagbo said.
Rebels claim they were promised the defence and interior ministries at the talks held near Paris, but the Ivorian armed forces and major political parties rejected outright the key portfolios going to the insurgents.
Ivory Coast's new consensus Prime Minister Diarra, a former diplomat who served as premier earlier in a short-lived military regime, has admitted that forming a please-all power-sharing government was beset by problems.
"Even (the portfolios) for arts and crafts and monitoring the informal economy pose problems," he said in the Senegalese capital Dakar late Friday after holding talks with President Abdoulaye Wade.
Wade, who chaired the 15-nation ECOWAS until January 15, has played a prominent role in trying to defuse the crisis.
ECOWAS is now headed by President John Kufuor of Ghana, which took up the rotating presidency of the bloc from Senegal - Sapa-AFP
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