Thirty-six people would have been enlisted in the Russian military war, following a publication on the Ukraine Embassy’s Facebook page in Senegal.
Le Monde
Dakar reported his discontent Thursday, March 3 from Kiev, inviting him to withdraw a call to fight in Ukraine and cease any recruitment from Senegal, after the announcement of an enlistment of thirty-six persons for Help in the war against the Russians.
One week after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Department of Foreign Affairs of Senegal asserts to have “learned with astonishment the publication on the Facebook page of the Embassy of Ukraine in Dakar a call to foreign citizens to help “to this country, in a statement.
The Ukraine Ambassador to Senegal Yuril Pyvovarov was “immediately invited to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs [in Dakar] for the purpose of verifying and authenticating this publication”, according to this communiqué of the Ministry published on Thursday night. Mr. Pyvovarov has “confirmed the existence of the appeal and enrollment of 36 volunteer candidates”, according to the text that does not specify the identity of the latter.
Dakar has “firmly” condemned “this practice which constitutes a violation of the obligation to comply with the laws and regulations of the credential State”. It recalls that the recruitment of volunteers, mercenaries and foreign fighters in Senegalese territory is “illegal”.
Abstention of Senegal to the UN
Senegal “urged the embassy to immediately withdraw the appeal and cease without delay any recruitment procedure for persons of Senegalese or foreign nationality from Senegalese territory”. Senegal refers Wednesday, March 2 in the vote of a UN resolution, which “requires Russia to cease immediately to use the force against Ukraine”, adopted massively.
The resolution claims to Moscow that it “immediately removes, completely and unconditions all its military forces” from Ukraine and “condemns the decision of Russia to accentuate the alertness of its nuclear forces”.
While expressing “his serious concern about the situation in Ukraine”, Senegal, who presidesion the African Union, “reaffirmed [his] adherence to the principles of non-alignment and the peaceful settlement of disputes “, according to a government release published Wednesday night.