Published on : 23/09/2022 – 03:58
The leaders of West African states meeting in an extraordinary summit Thursday evening in New York have decided to take “progressive sanctions” once morest the military junta in Guinea in the face of the inflexibility of the military for a date for the return of civilians to power. “We have decided to take sanctions once morest Guinea,” the chairman of the commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Omar Aliou Touray told AFP following a closed-door summit. closed in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. According to a document sanctioning this summit of heads of state, consulted by AFP, “it was stopped the taking of progressive sanctions on individuals and once morest the Guinean junta”.