The leaders of the ECOWAS member states decided on Wednesday (September 8) to suspend Guinea from the decision-making bodies of the organization and to dispatch a mission to the country on Thursday following the putsch that took place there on Sunday, said a minister attending their virtual summit.
The Economic Community of West African States "has decided to suspend Guinea from all its decision-making bodies, and calls for these decisions to be endorsed by the African Union and the United Nations," told reporters , in Ouagadougou, the Burkinabè Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alpha Barry, after taking part in the summit by videoconference.
He did not mention economic sanctions.
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A "high-level mission" will be sent to Guinea on Thursday "to discuss with the new authorities" and, at the end of this mission of an unspecified duration, ECOWAS will reconsider its positions, he said.
The leaders of the ECOWAS "demanded respect for the physical integrity of President Alpha Condé", filed by the putschists on Sunday, his "immediate release" as well as that of all those arrested.
They demand that the military "put in place a process which will allow a return to normal constitutional order to be achieved very quickly," said Alpha Barry.
With AFP
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