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The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of Ghana, Shirley Oyorkor Botchwey, has informed the members of the Diplomatic Corps about the outcome of the consultative meeting on the political crisis in Mali.
Members of the Diplomatic Corps present at the briefing included; Mrs. Cludia Turbay Quintero, Ambassador of Colombia in Ghana, who is also Dean of the Diplomatic Corps.
Ms Botchwey outlined some of the key decisions reached at the consultative meeting held in Aburi on Tuesday, September 15, including the need for a transitional government led by a civilian president and a prime minister in Mali.
He said the Authority asked the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP), the military junta that overthrew Mali’s president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, on August 18, 2020, to immediately nominate two civilians as president and prime minister. , to monitor the transition process. , which should not exceed 18 months.
Ms. Botchwey said that the Authority reaffirmed its demand for
civilian-led transitional administration to ensure a speedy return to constitutional rule in Mali.
The Authority stated that the Military Junta would be dissolved as soon as the transitional civilian government was constituted, he added.
Ms. Botchwey noted that the ECOWAS Authority agreed to lift all sanctions imposed on Mali when the transitional president and prime minister were appointed.
Ms. Botchwey said that the leader of the Military Junta, Colonel Assimi Goita, and his delegation, however, told the Authority that they would have to go back and conduct more consultations with decision makers at the CNSP.
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to visit Bamako next week to assess the status of the implementation of the decision that reached the Aburi meeting.
ECOWAS suspended Mali and imposed sanctions due to the political uprising that toppled the government of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on August 18, 2020.
The bloc suspended financial transactions between Mali and its 14 other member countries, and also suspended the troubled nation of its internal decision-making organs, and asked the military junta to appoint a president and a prime minister before 15 December. September 2020, or it would face more sanctions. .
Tuesday’s meeting in Aburi was called by President Akufo-Addo, President of ECOWAS, to reinforce the Charter decisions agreed at the 57th ordinary ECOWAS summit held in Niamey, capital of Niger.
Source: GNA
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