Ahead of an ECOWAS summit, the governing junta in Guinea has attacked the organization’s current president violently, calling his comments from Wednesday a “disgrace.”
The junta charged the president of ECOWAS with using “clown diplomacy” in the attack on Thursday (September 22).
“The scathing untruth and the intimidating insults are outmoded behaviors used nowadays that dishonor the author and damage the reputation of ECOWAS at the same time. The transitional presidency’s secretary general, Colonel Amara Camara, declared, “We cannot accept this dishonor.
He said, “We are not in a relationship of clowns or reality TV.
Colonel Camara blamed the current president of the Bissau-Guinean Umaro Sissoco Embalo, for his statements to French media RFI and France 24 on Wednesday.
Mr. Embalo had warned that Guinea would face “heavy sanctions” if the junta, which came to power by force in September 2021, persisted in wanting to stay in power for three years.
He reaffirmed that during a visit to Guinea he had obtained an agreement with the junta to hand over to elected civilians after two years, which Colonel Camara described as a “lie.
Leaders of ECOWAS member states are expected to hold a summit in New York on Thursday afternoon on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, with the situation in Guinea and the crisis between Mali and Ivory Coast at the top of their agenda.
