Ahead of joining Commonwealth, Gabon sends envoy to Paris

摘要

In retaliation for not having been invited to the France-Africa finance summit in Paris on 18 May (AI, 20/05/21),Gabon has set out on a frenzied diplomatic mission.President Ali Bongo's first and widely publicisedresponse to this affront was to speed up the process tojoin the Commonwealth initiated a few months earlier.This was followed shortly after with a meeting on 27 Maybetween Bongo's foreign affairs minister PacômeMoubelet Boubeya and his Russian counterpart SergeyLavrov.