United Nations ( CNN ) -- The United Nations Security Council decided Tuesday to postpone for a day a vote to approve sending 2,000 additional troops to the Ivory Coast . Security Council diplomats said the vote was delayed because Russia had objections to the `` political '' language in the draft resolution . `` [ Wednesday ] , we will adopt the resolution , '' Ambassador Ivan Barbalic of Bosnia-Herzegovina , this month 's president of the council , told reporters . Asked whether disagreements between member states led to the delay , Barbalic said `` There are no disagreements . It will be adopted . '' The Security Council is expected to approve the increase unanimously , a diplomat from one of the council 's member states told CNN on Monday . U.N. officials requested up to 2,000 more peacekeepers in early January , which would bring mission strength to more than 11,000 troops and police . The increased number of troops comes amid a standoff between self-proclaimed President Laurent Gbagbo and the internationally recognized winner of November 's presidential runoff , Alassane Ouattara . Ouattara is holed up in a hotel in Abidjan under the protection of U.N. peacekeepers , and the United Nations has blamed Gbagbo 's supporters for a string of attacks on U.N. vehicles and troops in the past week . Gbagbo 's foreign minister , Alcide Djedje , said earlier this month that the peacekeepers are `` complicit with the rebellion '' and that the sitting government has `` no more confidence in the U.N. '' The standoff has raised fears of a renewal of the bloodshed suffered after a civil war broke out in 2002 . More than 25,000 Ivorians have fled to neighboring Liberia since the crisis began , the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees reported last week . The Economic Community of West African States has threatened to use `` legitimate force '' to remove Gbagbo , who met Monday with African Union mediator Raila Odinga . Odinga , Kenya 's prime minister , arrived in Abidjan for the talks early Monday . The cocoa-producing nation was wracked by civil war from 2002 to 2007 , when a settlement left the country divided between north and south . The 2010 elections came with high expectations that they would open a new chapter in the country 's history . CNN 's Whitney Hurst and Zain Verjee contributed to this report .
NEW : The vote is delayed until Wednesday . NEW : The Security Council president expresses confidence it will be adopted . Raila Odinga , serving as the African Union 's mediator , met with Gbagbo on Monday .