Africa-Press – Angola. Gabon is suspended, since this Monday, from the Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC), until it returns to normal constitutional order.
The decision was taken during the ECCAS Extraordinary Summit, held in Djibloho, Equatorial Guinea, within the scope of the Central African Peace and Security Council (COPAX), in which the Angolan Head of State, João Lourenço, participated.
According to the Final Communiqué, the meeting decided that the current presidency of the CEEAC Conference of Heads of State and Government should be taken over by the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, within the framework of the organization’s statutes which provide for the vice president to fill the vacancy -president.
The conference decided to transfer, temporarily, the seat of the Community to Malabo (Equatorial Guinea), until the restoration of constitutional order in the Gabonese Republic.
Participants urged Member States and the ECCAS Commission to make every effort to support the work of the President of the Central African Republic, Faustin Archange Touadera, appointed as facilitator of the political process in the Gabonese Republic.
The Summit was convened following the coup d’état that took place in Gabon on 30 August last and which deposed the elected President, Ali Bongo Ondinga.
In the early hours of Wednesday (30) a group of military personnel from the Gabonese army announced a coup d’état, on national television, after the release of the results of the general elections in that country.
The deposed Head of State of Gabon assumed, last February, the rotating leadership of ECCAS, replacing his counterpart from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Félix Tshisekedi.
The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) was created in Libreville, Gabon, in December 1981, becoming operational only in 1985.
ECCAS comprises Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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