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Senegalese President Macky Sall.
Macky Sall is going to Moscow this Thursday, June 2. This is indicated by sources at the presidency in Dakar. The Senegalese head of state, in his capacity as current president of the African Union, is to meet his counterpart Vladimir Putin, to ” carry the voice of Africa in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. A conflict that weighs heavily on the economies of the continent.
With our correspondent in Dakar, Charlotte Idrac
The departure is scheduled for this Thursday morning, direction Moscow. Macky Sall will be accompanied by Moussa Faki Mahamat, President of the African Union Commission.
According to our interlocutors at the presidency, there are no plans to stop in kyiv immediately following: “ A trip to Ukraine will be the subject of another sequence ».
This trip to Russia, Macky Sall had announced during the visit of the German Chancellor to Dakar on May 22. ” We want peace, we work for a ceasefire », « this is the african position said the Head of State.
While Senegal abstained in the first vote on the UN resolution condemning Russia, Macky Sall poses as a mediator.
The Senegalese president repeatedly underlined the consequences of the conflict for the continent, in particular the rise in the cost of hydrocarbons, and the difficulties of access to wheat, largely imported from Russia and Ukraine. It should therefore plead for supply facilities.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had expressed to Macky Sall his wish to address African heads of state. No precision at this stage on a timetable. The Senegalese president is expected to leave Moscow on Friday to go to the ECOWAS summit in Accra.
