Thursday, Cédéao had asked the new Burkinabe authorities to present a “reasonable for the return to the constitutional return”.
Le Monde with AFP
A commission has been put in place to develop a draft charter and agenda of the transition in Burkina Faso, where a military junta took power on January 24, indicates a presidential decree.
“It is established a technical commission for the development of draft texts and the agenda of the transition”, informs a decree signed by the Head of State, Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, and made public Saturday, February 5th.
This commission, composed of fifteen members, including lawyers, sociologists, economists and officers, will, in particular, “develop a draft charter and agenda with a proposal for the duration of the transition and modalities implementation “in a” two weeks “, specifies the decree.
The members of the Commission which is “independent and safe from pressures and maneuvers contrary to the general interest” are working on “volunteer title” and exercise their mission in “a patriotic spirit and an absolute dedication to the nation “He continues.
” Consultation of the vivid forces “
The Commission must, however, carry out a “vital consultation”, and a “recourse to national history and the experiences of elsewhere by focusing on innovation and creative imagination”, also advance the decree.
On 24 January, in the aftermath of a mutiny that had touched several barracks in the country, the patriotic movement for safeguarding and restoration (MPSR), chaired by Lieutenant-Colonel Damiba, filed former President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, after arresting him then placed in residence supervised in a villa of Ouagadougou.
Thursday, the Economic Community of the States of West Africa (Cédéao), gathered in extraordinary summit in Ghana, had decided not to impose new sanctions against Burkina Faso – suspended from the organization on 28 January because of the coup – but had asked the new Burkinabe authorities to present a “reasonable for return to the constitutional return”.
The junta had, in a statement released on Friday, said “take note of the invitation” of West Africans.