AA/Ouagadougou/Dramane Traoré
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Alliance of the States of the Sahel (AES) held, on Sunday, in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, a meeting whose objective was to identify a common approach in the definition of the formalities of separation with The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), we learned from an official source.
This meeting recorded the participation of Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Cooperation and Burkinabè from outside Burkina Faso, Abdoulaye Diop, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Mali, and Bakary Yaou Sangaré, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Nigerians outside the Republic of Niger.
The press release published at the end of the meeting stresses that the Ministers in charge of Foreign Affairs praised “leadership, informed vision and determination of the heads of state of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to” Make the AES Confederation, a space of sovereignty, peace and shared prosperity for the benefit of their populations “.
Greeting massive and spontaneous “membership of” African populations to this vision, thus reinforcing the pan -Africanist scope of confederal actions, the ministers had a “convergence of views” on the global approach of future negotiations with ECOWAS in interest superior of the populations, according to the same source, which does not give more details on the conclusions of the meeting.
“At the end of their work, the ministers expressed their gratitude to his excellence the captain Lbrahim Traoré, president of Faso, head of state, for his leadership and his commitment alongside his counterparts in Mali and Niger, to restore the dignity of the populations of the Sahel, “concluded the press release.
-As a reminder, General Assimi Goïta, President of the Confederation Alliance of the States of the Sahel (AES), announced, last Thursday, the circulation of the new biometric passport common in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, members of the Alliance, from January 29th.
These three countries must withdraw definitively on January 29, 2025 from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
“This withdrawal offers us an opportunity to achieve a real fraternity, without any interference; another way of achieving real integration, without manipulation but also without spirit of domination of one country by another, of a people on Other peoples, “said Reunion Abdoulaye Diop, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Mali, a country in which the AES Confederation of the AES Confederation.
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