ECOWAS Chairman appoints Compaore Guinea facilitator
Accra, Oct. 5, Ghanadot/GNA
- The Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and
Government of ECOWAS, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua of
Nigeria, has appointed President Blaise Compaore of Burkina
Faso as facilitator on the Guinean crisis for the
sub-regional body and the International Contact Group on
Guinea (ICG-G).
A statement from ECOWAS received in Accra on Monday said the
appointment is sequel to the request of the ICG-G during its
last meeting held on September 22 in New York where it
reviewed the situation in Guinea as well as Cote d’Ivoire,
Guinea Bissau, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The statement said it was expected that President Compaore
would visit Guinea within the next couple of days to begin
his mission.
The Guinean situation has been complicated by the death of
157 people who were attending an opposition rally at a
stadium in Conakry.
The last ICG-G meeting was attended by representatives of
the African Union, ECOWAS, the United Nations, the European
Union, Mano River Union, CEN-SAD, the Organisation of
Islamic Conference and the Organisation Internationale de la
Francophonie.
There were also representatives of the World Bank, Libya,
which is a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council,
Nigeria, Germany, Spain, Japan and Permanent members of the
UN Security Council, namely the United States of America,
France, the United Kingdom and Russia.
Ghanadot
