Guinean President Umaru Sissoko Embalo said on Thursday that French Head of State Emmanuel Macron called Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa during a meeting they were alone, asking him to support Guinea-Bissau and Bissau “in development efforts”.
Speaking to Televisão da Guiné-Bissau and Lusa in Creole, flown at Bissau airport, after the plane carrying Macron left for France a few hours after visiting Guinea-Bissau, Embalo noted that the French head of state’s first visit to the country “was a success.” big.”
“President Macron, in my presence, phoned the Portuguese Prime Minister, Antonio Costa, asking him to support Portugal and France for Guinea Bissau. This is very important,” the Guinean president said.
Umaro Sissoko Embalo also said that he conveyed to Emmanuel Macron the desire of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to hold a summit next month in an African country to be determined, where Portugal and France will be invited to discuss the issue of terrorism.
The Guinean president stressed that Macron’s visit, “the first by a head of state from a permanent member state of the United Nations Security Council”, represented “the revival of Guinea-Bissau”.
Umaro Sissoko Embalo also highlighted the visit of Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa in May 2021.
“For me, this is an important step. It is like the visit of the Portuguese president, now that Macron has come. Embalo emphasized that on the day the American president comes to this sub-region, I am sure he will come to Guinea-Bissau.
The French president arrived in Bissau on Wednesday evening for a visit that lasts a few hours and left the Guinean capital on Thursday after a tour that took him to Benin and Cameroon.
Emmanuel Macron announced at the end of the meeting with his Guinean counterpart Bissau that France will support the training of Guinean soldiers and will pay three million euros for the stability of the country.
