The head of European Union foreign policy, Josep Borrell, said before the informal meeting of the foreign ministers of the community countries in Toledo, that EU countries do not plan to evacuate their citizens from Gabon after the military seizes power. in the country, reports TASS.
He noted that there were no prerequisites for release.
“The situation is calm, we do not see the risk of violence. There are thousands of EU citizens in Gabon, but no country has expressed concern about it,” Borrell said.
Prior to this, it was reported that law enforcement in the capital of Senegal had dispersed demonstrators near the Gabon embassy. applied tear gas.
On the morning of August 30, a group of senior military officers in Gabon made a statement on the country’s main television channel regarding the annulment of the presidential election results and the dissolution of the institutions of power. The officers declared that they had taken power into their own hands and represented the country’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces. Against this background, there were reports of a gunfight in the capital, Libreville.
Former European Union to create Difference between coups in Niger and Gabon.