NEW YORK - The Nigerian Foreign Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, announced on Tuesday that an extraordinary summit of the heads of state of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will be held on the occasion of the UN General Assembly currently being held in New York.
At the meeting, the issue of the 46 Ivorian soldiers detained in Mali since July 10 will be on the agenda, Onyeama said in an interview with RFI radio station. "There will be a summit.
This is not the first time, as ECOWAS often takes advantage of the fact that all the heads of state are in New York to bring them together to discuss issues that concern the community," said the head of Nigerian diplomacy.
On the question of the 46 Ivorian soldiers recently arrested in Bamako, Onyeama defended that "there is no real evidence that these soldiers were mercenaries."
