Guinea: end of a visit by ECOWAS and the UN to assess the transition
Mahamat Saleh Annadif, the head of the UN in West Africa in 2020 (Illustration image).
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This Monday, ECOWAS and the UN concluded a two-day visit to Guinea.
The head of the UN in West Africa, Mahamat Saleh Annadif, the president of the ECOWAS Commission, Jean-Claude Kassi Brou and finally the Ghanaian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway led the delegation.
The objective is to assess the ongoing transition process.
In particular, the team met with the authorities of the new power, resulting from the September 5 coup.
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The ECOWAS-UN delegation met the president of the transition, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, but also the Prime Minister, the head of diplomacy and the National Transitional Council, the legislative body.
After two days of meetings, the diplomats welcomed the establishment of this CNT, however the delegation did not necessarily succeed in seeing more clearly on the follow-up.
“
We are trying to convince the authorities to make a short transition, but it is far from certain
,” confides a diplomat.
Indeed, according to a good source, the junta explained that it would give a chronogram after the tour of the Council launched Sunday inside the country.
However, this trip to meet the aspirations of the population is supposed to last until March 8.
Civil society fears
ECOWAS and the UN also discussed with civil society, in particular the FNDC.
The citizens' movement spoke with the UN representative Mahamet Saleh Annadif.
“
We trust him, he is a credible, pragmatic personality.
The meeting reassured us
,” explains Ibrahima Diallo, FNDC operations manager.
The movement conveyed its concerns to the diplomat: the absence of a transition timetable, the absence of a formal framework for dialogue between the junta and the population, and
the absence of a list of putschists in power
.
“
There is too much vagueness.
We don't know where this transition is going.
And this concern could lead to a major socio-political crisis
,” says Ibrahima Diallo.
ECOWAS and the UN have also officially "
urged the authorities to adopt a timetable
", while recalling that a transition was not intended to solve all the problems of a country...
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