{Ministers of Foreign Affairs in the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) have elaborated many issues including Rwanda’s readmission in the ECCAS in a meeting that ended Saturday 22 Nov. 2014 in N’Djaména .
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This website has learned from the Angolan Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the meeting of the ECCAS Council of Ministers ended on Saturday (22) and was held in a cordial atmosphere.
The statement says also on the agenda were items relating to political, security and humanitarian in CAR, institutional reform of ECCAS, the readmission of Rwanda and the contribution of member states to the general budget of the Secretariat.
The discussion related to Rwanda comes a month after Rwanda expressed its willingness to rejoin ECCAS.
In October this year Foreign Affairs Minister Louise Mushikiwabo who attended the closure of the Loango Military exercise held in Brazzaville expressed her country’s willingness to rejoin the bloc.
Commenting on Rwanda’s membership to the ECCAS, Mushikiwabo told press in Brazzaville that Rwanda is a country that belongs to Central Africa as well as in East Africa.
She said “In reality we had not left ECCAS, but we had suspended our participation because since the 1994 genocide, Rwanda is a country in reconstruction. So we thought we could not contribute fully to ECCAS.”
However the Minister said “the next summit will see the reinstatement of Rwanda within the family of ECCAS.”
The press release of the Angola’s Foreign Affairs Ministry says that “Ministers took note of a stagecoach which aims to readmission of the Republic of Rwanda in ECCAS.”
It adds that “This shall be referred to political decision of the Heads of State and Government when they get together in Summit.”
It is expected that Heads of state will gather soon in N’Djaména the capital and the largest city in Chad.
Meanwhile other sensitive issues elaborated include areas of human integration, peace, security and stability, physical, economic and monetary integration and social and cultural integration and program budget, administration and human resources.
It was found, moreover, that the security situation in the region remains marked by global threats, with the focus on the terrorist group Boko Haram, the crisis in the CAR and insecurity in the DRC.
Given that the region of Central Africa borders all other regions of the continent there are also threats from crossing in the Sahel zone.
It appears the implementation of the activities of international Islamic terrorism in the space of ECCAS, in association with drug trafficking and circulation of weapons of all types.
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