SENEGAL-DIPLOMACY

The general conference of ambassadors and consuls general offers the opportunity to assess Senegal’s diplomatic action and engage in constructive dialogue on the country’s foreign policy orientations, said the President, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, on Saturday in Diamniadio.

“This meeting provides the opportunity to gather the diplomatic and consular family of our country, to assess with lucidity the state of our external action, but also to engage in constructive dialogue with you and to provide guidelines that should guide our foreign policy,” he declared.

He presided over the 7th conference of ambassadors and consuls general of Senegal on the theme “Senegalese diplomacy and the renewal of international cooperation: principles and modes of action” at the Abdou Diouf International Conference Center in Diamniadio (CICAD).

Many diplomats based in Senegal and abroad, the Prime Minister, Ousmane Sonko, government members including the Minister of African Integration, Foreign Affairs, and Senegalese abroad, took part in the event.

“This meeting is, in many ways, a privileged moment in our institutional life,” commented the president, expressing his pleasure in presiding over the general conference of ambassadors, consuls general, and consuls of Senegal for the first time.

He emphasized that Senegal had recently reached a major milestone in its political history with the event of the third democratic alternation, which, according to him, occurred “in a context marked by a severe crisis that, at one point, tested national stability.”

“This situation, far from weakening our state, has, on the contrary, strengthened the vitality of our institutions and the resilience of our democracy. Senegal honors an old, active, deeply rooted diplomatic tradition in Africa and resolutely open to the world,” observed Bassirou Diomaye Faye.

He thus committed to continue and amplify this dynamic aimed at implementing the country’s transformative vision.

“It is in this spirit that, since taking office, I have chosen to entrust diplomacy to professionals, whose expertise and dedication have decisively contributed, over the decades, to the international influence of Senegal,” he indicated.

He urged Senegalese diplomats to fully embrace this tradition of excellence, inherited from their predecessors whose commitment to the state and the nation remains a source of inspiration.

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