the military junta accepts a duration of 24 months

AA / Peter Kum

The current president of ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) and President of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embaló revealed on Thursday “to have succeeded with the president of the commission of the organization under -regional to convince the junta in power in Conakry that the transition cannot exceed 24 months”, reported the Guinean newspaper Guinée Live.

“I was in Conakry with the president of the ECOWAS commission to make the military junta understand the decision of the summit of heads of state that the transition cannot exceed 24 months. They had proposed 36 months. We managed to convince them…”, Embaló told the press, during the visit to his country of French President Emmnuel Macron, underlined the same newspaper.

On July 20, an ECOWAS mission led by President Embaló was received in Conakry by Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, president of the transition in Guinea.

The mission stayed in Conakry to convince the military junta to propose a reasonable date in order to avoid the economic and financial sanctions of ECOWAS, the President of Guinea-Bissau spoke at length with the Guinean Head of State, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya according to local media.

Last May, the National Transitional Council, which has served as parliament since the September 5 putsch once morest Alpha Condé in Guinea, adopted a 36-month deadline before the return of civilians to power.

The head of the military junta announced at the end of April a transition of 39 months, while the international community insisted on a much shorter period.

In September 2021, following the putsch once morest President Alpha Condé, who had been in power for more than ten years, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had “insisted that the transition be very short”, and that elections be organized within a period not exceeding “six months”.

ECOWAS suspended Guinea following the September 5 putsch and imposed sanctions on it following the junta’s repeated refusal to comply with its demands.

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