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Guinea Bissau: cessation of support by The European Union

By on August 10, 2010
The European Union (EU) has decided not to renew its mission to support the Guinea Bissau security reform. The first part of the mandate will end on September the 30th. This decision resulted from “the violation of the constitutional order, the detention of civilians and military persons.

The impunity enjoyed by the doers, since the mutiny, on last April, which led to the ouster of Chief of Staff, General Jose Zamora Induta, and his replacement by his deputy, General Antonio Indjai. His appointment, by presidential decree to the rank of Chief of Defence Staff “is another defection from the process of democratic consolidation” said the European Union. “The conditions for deploying a new mission do not exist, and the political instability and lack of rule of law make it impossible for the E.U to initiate a monitoring mission, as was originally planned, without violating its own principles”, adds the statement.

The European Union and the United States had announced, in June, their intentions to withdraw their support programs of reforming the security services, accusing the dignitaries of the army and the government of being involved in drug traffic and illicit trade…

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