Omar Alieu Touray, the commission’s president, was part of an ECOWAS delegation that travelled to Toledo, Spain, on Thursday, August 31, to request assistance from the EU.
The Niger’s foreign affairs minister, chosen by President Bazoum, accompanied the dignitaries.
Bazoum was overthrown by the army more than a month ago.
The 27-nation bloc was provided with the west African bloc’s Niger strategy.
“My visit this afternoon is to explain our position to the European Union, what has informed the various measures that ECOWAS has taken and the collaboration we seek from all our partners,” Omar Alieu Touray, President of ECOWAS.
“As you know, the world is a global village. One event in a particular place affects the whole world. So that is why we feel it, we find it important to come to Spain to talk to our partners from the European Union so that they understand what we are doing and give us the support that they are able to give us.”
EU foreign ministers were gathering for a one-day informal meeting in Toledo, central Spain.
“African solutions to African problems. We are on listening mode, as I said yesterday we are ready to consider to study any proposal coming from the ECOWAS. I want to repeat the idea that President Bazoum was the only authority democratically elected in the whole Sahel.”
ECOWAS has sanctioned Niger and demanded president Bazoum’s reinstatement.
Musah stated that all the ECOWAS was doing was dependent on the resources of member nations in an interview with the AP on August 23. He added that the organization was not discussing its military intentions with any outside partners.
ECOWAS announced earlier this month that 11 of its 15 member states had consented to intervene militarily if negotiations failed.
ECOWAS representatives and the Niger junta met in the middle of August, but no common ground was discovered.
The west African bloc is still threatening to intervene militarily.
European Union nations are concerned that Sahelian insecurity would encourage more individuals to migrate illegally.
