Diplomats from the European Union held talks in the capital of Gabon on 30 August during the military takeover of the country. The newspaper reports Finance Timesrefers to anonymous officials.
European diplomats in Libreville held crisis talks with President Ali Bongo Ondimba urging the West for help, after a video emerged.
According to the report of the Financial Times, officials also said that due to the situation in the country, a decision has not yet been taken in Brussels on the possible evacuation of European citizens from Gabon.
On 31 August, the head of the European Union’s foreign affairs, Josep Borrell, before the informal meeting of the foreign ministers of the community countries in Toledo, planning Evacuating its citizens from Gabon after the military took over the country.
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.