In the absence of an agreement, the Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) did not make significant decisions against Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso. They postponed the decision until July. The Guinean Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Morissanda Kouyaté, reacted to this postponement on his Twitter account.
He welcomes the postponement: "The discernment and understanding that characterized the extraordinary ECOWAS summit on June 4, 2022 are to be welcomed and encouraged. As a founding member, the Republic of Guinea, under the leadership of President Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, will always work for peace, stability and security in our sub-region. The peoples and their legitimate aspirations have priority."
The March summit gave Burkina the same ultimatum as Guinea. But at the junta's request, ECOWAS dispatched a three-day mission at the end of May to assess the situation in Burkina Faso, where bloody jihadist attacks follow one another.
The mission's report, submitted to the Accra summit on Saturday, notes that "the humanitarian and security situation remains difficult" and "we must obviously take the measure of this situation," declared the president of the ECOWAS commission, Jean -Claude Kassi Brou.
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