French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that he was waiting for "clarifications" from Burkina Faso regarding its request for the withdrawal of his country's forces from its territory within a month.
Macron indicated that he was waiting for "President Traore to speak, as I understood that the messages that were circulated in this regard were very ambiguous."
Macron hinted, during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Schultz, that Russia has a relationship with this issue, saying, "There is a specialization for some in the region who participated in what we live in Ukraine, and I mean our Russian friends."
Macron said, "We must be very careful and aware that there is a specialization of some in the region who participated in what we live in Ukraine, and I mean our Russian friends in the manipulations."
Last Saturday, the Burkina Faso government formally called on the French forces on its territory to leave the country "within a month."
2018 agreement
Last week, the Burkina Faso authorities denounced the agreement signed in 2018, which regulates the presence of the French armed forces on its territory.
The agreement provides for giving the French forces one month to leave the territory of Burkina Faso.
This coastal country has a battalion of nearly 400 French special forces.
The country witnessed a wave of demonstrations calling for the departure of the French soldiers stationed northeast of the capital Ouagadougou, and the demonstrators accuse France of not doing enough to help Burkina Faso in the face of terrorist attacks, and sometimes of complicity with the aggressors.
The transitional president of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré - who came to power following a military coup last September - declared to a crowd of students that "the struggle for sovereignty has begun."