ECOWAS leaders to discuss regional security, finance

Government taking place in the Ivorian administrative capital of Yamoussoukro on Friday.According to the Commission in Abuja President of the ECOWAS Commission, Ambassador Kadré Desire Ouédraogo, will present to the regional leaders a memorandum on the post-conflict situations  in Mali and Guinea Bissau which has fixed presidential elections next month in line with the ECOWAS-facilitated […]

Government taking place in the Ivorian administrative capital of Yamoussoukro on Friday.
According to the Commission in Abuja President of the ECOWAS Commission, Ambassador Kadré Desire Ouédraogo, will present to the regional leaders a memorandum on the post-conflict situations  in Mali and Guinea Bissau which has fixed presidential elections next month in line with the ECOWAS-facilitated road map following the defence and security sector reforms in that country.
The Summit will also listen to the status report on the situation in Mali by the mediator, President Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso, and his co-mediator, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan of Nigeria. A new chairman of the ECOWAS Authority will be appointed to succeed outgoing Chair, Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara who held the position for two years.
The two-day session will also consider the 2013 Annual Report of the President of the Commission, the reports of the 71st Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers and the Council’s 12th and 13th Extraordinary Sessions, and the report of the 31st Session of the Mediation and Security Council.
There will also be consideration of proposal by the ministers of national security on the introduction of biometric identification card and the abolition of the residence permit requirement under the 1979 protocol on free movement of persons, the right of residence and establishment.