The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) must disavow the words of its commissioner Abdel-Fatau Musah or risk damage to its relations and reputation, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has said. Musah had accused Kiev of genocide in the Donbass and terrorism.
Musah is the ECOWAS commissioner for political affairs, peace and security. He took part in the Russia-Africa Partnership ministerial forum in the Krasnodar Region last week.
“The groundless and insulting accusations of Ukraine in committing ‘genocide in Donbas’, ‘state terrorism’ and involvement towards destabilization of the African countries in the region mindlessly reproduce the Russian propaganda that has nothing to do with the reality,” the Foreign Ministry in Kiev said on Wednesday.
Ukraine is “deeply outraged” over Musah’s “scornful and fake” statements, which undermine relations between Kiev and the bloc and “also cause serious damage to the reputation of ECOWAS,” the ministry…
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