President of Republic Chairs OMVS Extraordinary Summit
On 19 October, His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, the President of the Republic, President in Office of the Senegal River Development Organization (OMVS), chaired an extraordinary summit of the OMVS held via videoconference.
In addition to the President of the Republic who chaired the Extraordinary Summit of the OMVS, their Excellencies Mr. Macky Sall, the President of the Republic of Senegal, Colonel Assimi Goita, the President of the Transition, Head of State of the Republic of Mali, Dr Bernard Joumeau, and the Acting Prime Minister of the Government of Guinea, representing Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, the President of the National Committee of the Rally for Development, President of the Transition of the Republic of Guinea, Head of State.
The agenda for this extraordinary summit focuses on developments in the organization and the pace of implementation of the decisions it took at its last summit.
His Excellency, the President of the Republic stressed the importance of the unity of the organization, the participation of all Member States in its development, and the combined efforts of its leaders to develop the region and realize the aspirations of its people to growth and economic integration.
Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani welcomed the return of Guinea to the organization approximately three months after the suspension of its membership.
The return of the State of Guinea to the organization comes after the exchanges that His Excellency had with His Excellency Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, the President of the Transition in the Republic of Guinea, President of the National Committee of the Rally for Development, Head of State, last September in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. It also came following a special message he sent him two weeks ago and delivered to him in Conakry by Mr. Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation, and Mauritanians Abroad.
It is noteworthy that during the current term of His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani at the head of the OMVS, the organization has refocused its vision, refined its planning, and accelerated the pace of implementation of its various development programs. It also expanded the space of its partnerships at the global level since it announced during this period the decision to create the River Development Bank.
It is in this dynamic of partnership expansion that Mr. Mohamed Abdel Fattah, the OMVS High Commissioner, was part of the presidential delegation which visited the People’s Republic of China at the end of last July, which opened wide horizons and enormous partnership opportunities for the organization.