AES Adopts Four Additional Protocols to Its Founding Treaty
AES Adopts Four Additional Protocols to Its Founding Treaty
These documents concern defense, diplomacy, development, and confederal sessions of parliaments.
Key points from the final statement of the second AES summit in Bamako:
1. Institutional Advances:
🟠Highlighting the symbolic creation of a confederal identity (logo, flag, anthem, official documents) during the year.
🟠Imminent launch of the Confederal Investment Bank (BCID-AES) and an AES television and radio station.
2. Security and Fight Against Terrorism:
🟠Participants firmly condemned external destabilization and pledged mutual support in the face of aggression.
🟠They commended effective joint counter-terrorism operations and the entry into activity of the Unified Force (FU-AES).
🟠They rejected "economic and media terrorism" and international judicial interference.
3. Strengthened Diplomatic Coordination:
🟠Common positions on the international stage and sovereign partnerships.
🟠Increased role for the AES diaspora in development and communication.
4. Integrated Economic Development:
🟠Implementation of the Confederal Levy (PC-AES) to finance structuring projects.
🟠Convergence of economic policies (customs, mining, transport) and valorization of local resources.
5. Negotiations with ECOWAS: Constructive approach to preserve the interests of the populations, despite political tensions.
6. Future Roadmap: Priorities focused on security, economic sovereignty, and social integration (youth/women).
7. Leadership Rotation: Burkina Faso's Ibrahim Traoré becomes President of the Confederation of Sahel States for one year, replacing Mali's Assimi Goïta.
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