2023-05-26 10:41:40
From APS Special Envoy Abdou Kogne Sall
Banjul, May 26 (APS) – The international conference in Banjul devoted to unconstitutional changes of government ended Thursday evening with the adoption of a series of recommendations aimed, among other things, at strengthening the rule of law. and fight more effectively once morest overthrows of the constitutional order in West Africa, noted the APS special envoy.
Participants in the meeting opened on Monday in the Gambian capital called on the Economic Community of West African States to ensure that the rights of citizens are preserved from the negative effects of sanctions once morest the perpetrators of military state.
The fifteen member countries of the Community space were invited to commit themselves to strengthening democratic ideals and promoting the rule of law.
ECOWAS States must commit to strong democratic ideals, the strengthening of the rule of law as specified by the various international instruments, underlines the communiqué sanctioning an international conference on unconstitutional changes of government, can we read in the final communiqué of the conference.
The President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, Edward Amaoko Asante, during the closing ceremony, called for the appointment as soon as possible of an authority responsible for the execution of judgments of the Community jurisdiction in some of its member states.
”I would like to launch a solemn appeal to Benin, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Niger and Sierra Leone and Liberia to proceed with the appointment of an authority responsible for supervising the execution of judgments of the ECOWAS Court of Justice,” said the Ghanaian judge.
The international meeting, which brings together more than 200 participants, lawyers, human rights activists and members of the courts of ECOWAS Member States, among others, was closed in the presence of the Gambian Minister of Justice, Dauda Jallow.
The meeting organized at the Dauda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Center in Banjul at the initiative of the ECOWAS Court of Justice aimed to give participants the opportunity to discuss legal issues related to current affairs in the community space, we learned from the organizers.
This ninth conference of community jurisdiction was held in a regional context marked over the past two years by reversals of the constitutional order in three ECOWAS Member States, Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso.
This no doubt justified the theme chosen for this conference: ”ECOWAS zero tolerance to changes of government by unconstitutional means”.
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