The ECOWAS Fee and the Arab Republic of Egypt are exploring the chance for higher cooperation in peace and safety, in direction of making West Africa a safer and extra secure area on the continent.
This got here to the fore when the Egyptian Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS H.E. Mohamed Fouad paid a courtesy name on the ECOWAS Fee’s Commissioner of Political Affairs, Peace and Safety Dr. Abdel-Fatau Musa on the sixteenth Might 2024 in Abuja, Nigeria.
Commissioner Musa acknowledged that the operationalization of the ECOWAS counter terrorism Power is one such space the place cooperation is required. He hinted that plans are afoot to convene a particular summit on the way forward for regional integration, even because the regional organisation is working very onerous to make sure that the heightened geo-political pursuits within the area don’t result in proxy wars.
Stating that ECOWAS has so much to study from Egypt on regional peace consolidation, the Commissioner disclosed that ECOWAS was against the concept of withdrawal of Member States from the Group as a result of such actions have been towards the precept of integration and pan Africanism.
Significantly, the Commissioner famous that the ECOWAS Fee was wanting ahead to seeing how Egypt can “help the affect of the dynamics of the present happenings in Libya in such a approach as can assure the protection of the Sahel, having now been established that the Sahel is defining our peace and safety surroundings right now”
Responding, Ambassador Fouad acknowledged ECOWAS as probably the most profitable regional financial neighborhood on the continent and famous that though Egypt isn’t in West Africa, it’s aware of the proximity of the border areas of the area and the Maghreb.
Egypt, he confused may be very a lot disposed to having a holistic method to tackling problems with terrorism, cross border crimes, insecurity and insurgencies.
He mentioned Egypt’s cooperation with ECOWAS stems from mutual understanding and shared wants for capability constructing and knowledge change whereas either side expressed optimism that the experiences of Egypt can be very worthwhile to the regional peacekeeping, mediation and integration efforts of ECOWAS.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Financial Group of West African States (ECOWAS).
