Posted on 03.29.2023 at 11:42 by Linda Manga
This is what emerges from the audience between the Head of State Ali Bongo and the Sierra Leonean Minister of Foreign Affairs, David Francis Monday, March 27, 2023 in Libreville.
The Sierra Leonean minister has just reiterated his proposal to the Head of State Ali Bongo, for the organization of the summit of the committee of ten (C10), on the reform of the United Nations in Gabon. Indeed, it was in January during the work of the tenth ministerial session of the Committee of ten African countries responsible for ensuring the common African position for the reform of the United Nations Security Council, organized in Brazzaville, Congo, that this proposal was first made.
With the mission and mandate to advocate and promote the common African position on the reform of the United Nations Council, as highlighted in the press release from the presidency, the committee of ten will focus this summit on various points, in particular on the route composed of seven specific points for the promotion of the African position. This document which will thus be presented in November 2023, in Equatorial Guinea in the city of Malabo during the C10 summit which will also be organized on this side.
Note that, the Committee of Ten is aadopted within the framework of the Ezulwini consensus and the Sirte declaration of 2005 relating to full representation of the African continent on the United Nations Security Council, with two permanent seats and the right of veto, and five non-permanent seats. This committee is made up of countries such as: Algeria, Equatorial Guinea, Congo, Uganda, Senegal, Libya, Kenya, Zambia, Namibia and finally Sierra Leone, which also holds the presidency of the coordination by its president Julius Maada Bio.
