Preside of Senegal: The presence of French military bases in our coury is incompatible with our national sovereigy – Mehr News Agency RCO News Agency
According to the report of Mehr News Agency, quoted by Russia Daily, the Preside of Senegal, Basiro Dumai Fay, considered the presence of French military bases in the coury to be in conflict with the coury’s national sovereigy.
He added: Senegal is an independe and sovereign coury, and national sovereigy is incompatible with the presence of foreign military bases, and the French authorities should seek to establish a partnership apart from this military presence. But a strong and fruitful, clear and comprehensive partnership similar to what we have with many other couries.
The Preside of Senegal stated: The presence or absence of the military does not mean breaking relations. Our coury has strong relations with many couries, including China, Türkiye, America and Saudi Arabia, and all these couries do not have military bases in Senegal.
He said: Today, China is our first business partner in terms of investme and trade. Does China have a military base in Senegal? No, so is our relationship broken?
The Preside of Senegal further poied to Paris’s acknowledgme of responsibility for the massacre of the coury’s colonial forces in Thiaruri near Dakar on December 1, 1944, which was announced to him in a letter from Emmanuel Macron, and expressed his satisfaction and welcomed this position. considered an importa step by Macron.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chad announced a few hours ago: the time has come for Chad to fully exercise its sovereigy after more than 6 decades of independence.
The ministry added: canceling the defense and security agreemes with France is an action aimed at emphasizing national sovereigy and does not harm relations with Paris.
64 years have passed since the end of French colonialism in Chad, but in rece years, the deployme of French forces in this Ceral African coury of 30 million people, especially in the last four years, has led to strong reactions from oppones of the French military presence, and these oppositions are still ongoing.
France currely has 600 troops in Ivory Coast. France also has 1,000 troops in Chad in northern Ceral Africa.
Uil two years ago, France had more than 5,000 troops in the Sahel region of Africa as part of an operation to fight against organizations it considers to be terrorists, but it has gradually withdrawn its forces at the request of the armies that in 2021 in Mali, in 2022 in Burkina Faso and came to power in Niger in 2023.
