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The Ivorian city of Yamoussoukro will welcome, from Monday, an annual summit of the Treaty of Amity between Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast.
The celebration of this friendship pact instituted in 2008 is will continue until Friday, day that will see the participation in the demonstrations of Burkinabe and Ivorian presidents, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and Alassane Ouattara.
The relations between the two neighbors were tumultuous before normalizing after the cancellation of a arrest warrant issued in 2016 by Burkina Faso against Guillaume Soro, the president of the Ivorian National Assembly.
M. Soro was accused of having supported the failed coup of September 2015 in Ouagadougou.
Due to the cancellation of this arrest warrant, some Burkinabè accuse their government of having sacrificed justice for the benefit of diplomacy, at the moment when the trial of the alleged perpetrators of the putsch is in progress
According to Burkinabe justice, the trial reveals connections between the defendants and Côte d'Ivoire
But for Alpha Barry, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, the authorities must take into account the interests of both countries.
"The arrest warrant is a case concerning justice," said the head of the Burkinabè diplomacy, adding to be concerned about "the diplomatic settlement "of" these political tensions "
" The interests of Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire are above all. A justice problem must not call into question the relations between the two countries, "insisted Alpha Barry.
According to him, the agreement between the two states has a positive" influence "on the daily life of his fellow living in Côte d'Ivoire, which hosts former Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaoré, ousted in October 2014 after 27 years in power.
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