2023-08-17 17:41:15
MADRID, 17 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Commissioner for Peace and Security of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Abdelfatah Musá, has warned this Thursday that the body, almost unanimously, is in favor of intervening militarily in Niger if diplomacy fails to restore peace. constitutional order prior to the coup.
“We will use all means to restore constitutional order in Niger. The operation is ready if diplomacy fails,” Musá warned, in the framework of the meeting that he met this Thursday in Accra, the capital of Ghana, of the heads of state Major of ECOWAS.
“The junta uses dialogue to buy time and get the coup accepted,” said Musa, who has insisted to the military in Niger that they still have time to reverse course and restore the government of ousted President Mohamed Bazoum, according to picks up the Actuniger news portal.
However, not only the countries governed by military juntas –Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea– have announced that they will not support this intervention, which for these three would even be considered a declaration of war against them, but there are others such as Cabo Verde, and to a lesser extent Togo, have already shown their rejection.
The discrepancies have also been established in the African Union (AU), which after an emergency meeting this Monday at the organization’s headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, its Peace and Security Council has still been unable to issue an official statement on the position of the organization regarding this issue.
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