Guinea and Senegal have committed to developing a South-South cooperation model spanning multiple sectors, Guinean Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah and his Senegalese counterpart Ousmane Sonko announced Monday following a working session in Guinea’s capital, Conakry.
The bilateral cooperation will focus on partnerships in mining, energy, infrastructure, fishing, culture, and cross-border security sectors, according to a statement from the Guinean government.
The working session took place during Sonko’s official visit to Guinea, after his arrival in Conakry on Sunday afternoon.
Sonko said that his visit aimed to “discuss avenues and means to achieve a qualitative and quantitative leap by pooling resources and efforts, so that we can build together, in a complementary manner, a shared development.”
“Guinea cannot go far without Senegal, without Cote d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Mali, and other regional countries. Likewise, Senegal cannot go far without its neighbors,” he said, emphasizing that the challenges confronting the region are far more significant than “their divergences, which are mainly cliches and misunderstandings.”
For his part, the Guinean prime minister said that while the historical trajectories of Senegal and Guinea have sometimes differed, this has never hampered the convergence of the two peoples’ aspirations.
He underscored the urgency for both countries “to provide concrete responses to the urgent need to overcome underdevelopment.”
Bah further emphasized the importance of “innovating, thinking, and learning from the best examples worldwide to foster a regional hub of stability, development, and fraternity,” encouraging regional cooperation to bring about lasting peace and progress. Enditem
Source: Xinhua
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