Umaru Musa Yar’Adua of Nigeria, has appointed President Blaise Compaore of Burkina
Faso as facilitator on the Guinean crisis for ECOWAS and the International Contact Group
on Guinea (ICG-G).
The appointment is sequel to the request of the ICG-G during its last meeting held on 22nd
September 2009 in New York where it reviewed the situation in Guinea as well as Cote
d’Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
It is expected that President Compaore will visit Guinea within the next couple of days to
begin his mission.
The last ICG-G meeting was attended by representatives of the African Union, ECOWAS,
the United Nations, the European Union, Mano River Union, CEN-SAD, the Organization
of Islamic Conference and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie.
There were also representatives of the World Bank, Libya, which is a non permanent
member of the UN Security Council, Nigeria, Germany, Spain, Japan and Permanent
members of the UN Security Council, namely the United States of America, France, the
United Kingdom and Russia.
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