A military solution to the coup in Niger would be a 'disaster' that could trigger a new migration crisis, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday.
Supporters of Nigers National Council of Safeguard of the Homeland protest outside the Niger and French airbase in Niamey on 30 August 2023 to demand the departure of the French army from Niger. EU foreign ministers are meeting in Spain, and Niger is high on the agenda.
" military solution be a disaster," Tajani told reporters as he arrived at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in the Spanish city of Toledo."We need to work day by day for a diplomatic solution." Tajani spoke positively of an Algerian proposal this week to resolve the crisis, involving a six-month transition period led by a civilian.The European Union is moving ahead with the legal groundwork to impose sanctions on members of a junta that seized power in Niger last month, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Wednesday.
However, when Borrell was asked whether the EU would provide financial support if ECOWAS decided on a military intervention in Niger, he said the bloc would consider any such request, rather than automatically approve it.Borrell said the coup had added fresh instability to the Sahel region of West and Central Africa, which he said was"already very fragile".
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