Published on : 09/22/2022 – 03:20
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On Thursday 22 September at the end of the day, a long-awaited ECOWAS summit will be held in New York, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. Convened on the initiative of the Bissau-Guinea presidency, it will be dedicated mainly to the situations in Guinea and Mali, sources of tension between the regional organization and the two capitals.
With our special correspondent in New York, Leonardo Vincenzo
Ultimately, the ECOWAS Extraordinary Summit will be the African event of this United Nations General Assembly. It was urged by the Bissau-Guinea presidency and will be held in a building adjacent to the United Nations at the end of the afternoon.
On the agenda, according to the President of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embalo: the review of the situation in Guinea and Mali “, Source of tension between the regional organization and the two capitals.
Because if the current president of the organization expressed his satisfaction with the passage to Burkina Faso – who says it? follow the roadmap agreed with ECOWAS – the same does not apply to the transitional authorities of Guinea and Mali. This is why he wanted this extraordinary summit in New York.
Of ” sanctions of lourdes ” I am ” on the table “
This will be an opportunity for former Beninese president Thomas Boni Yayi, mediator of ECOWAS, to inform heads of state his recent mission to Conakry at the end of August : should list points of agreement and disagreement with the Guinean transition authorities and make recommendations to Conakry and the Member States.
The main concerns of disagreement the duration of the passage. For President Embalo, the agreed 24 months are not ” not negotiable “And the hypothesis of” sanctions of lourdes ” is ” on the table “.
As for Mali, the point of tension is the question of the 46 Ivorian soldiers detained since July 10, including the Ivory Coast is calling for immediate release. But also the application of the timetable established in Accra in July, at the same time as the lifting of the sanctions affecting Bamako and in front of ” lead to elections and the restoration of civilian rule by 2024.
► To read, listen and also watch: Umaro Sissoco Embalo: “The 46 Ivorian soldiers are not mercenaries”
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