{"id":8823,"date":"2018-05-24T08:06:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T08:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8823"},"modified":"2018-05-25T14:37:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:37:07","slug":"20th-comesa-heads-of-state-summit-to-be-relocated-for-security-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/20th-comesa-heads-of-state-summit-to-be-relocated-for-security-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"20th COMESA Heads of State Summit to be relocated for security reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Sindiso N\u2019gwenya, Secretary General of COMESA declared on May 18th that the 20th summit of COMESA Heads of State and government which was expected to take place in Burundi from 1 to 10 June 2018 will be postponed and relocated to Lusaka, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/will-burundi-host-the-20th-comesa-summit-in-june\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Secretary of and Spokesman for Burundi Government, Philippe Nzobonariba said Burundi government had not been officially notified of this decision. <\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8824\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8824\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8824\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/comesa-1-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Burundi continues preparing to host 20th COMESA summit \" width=\"498\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/comesa-1-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/comesa-1-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/comesa-1-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/comesa-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burundi continues preparing to host 20th COMESA summit<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He added that the government of Burundi continues to prepare to host that event arguing that some materials are being imported from outside the country.<\/p>\n<p>However, a correspondence of the Burundian Minister of Foreigner Affairs, Ez\u00e9chiel Nibigira to Ministers of Foreign and External Relations of COMESA member countries, shows that Burundi had received on 15 May 2018 a correspondence from the COMESA Secretary General notifying of the postponement and relocation of the 20th COMESA summit following security reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Burundi Minister of foreign affairs considered the COMESA Secretary&#8217;s measure as a lack of respect for a sovereign state.<br \/>\nHe rejected the security reasons explained by the Secretary General of COMESA arguing that peace reigns throughout the national territory. &#8220;The incident, which the Secretary General provides as a pretext, is an attack conducted by Burundian terrorists at one kilometer distance from the border between Burundi and DRC,&#8221; reads the correspondence. He accuses the Secretary General of COMESA of continuing his plan to prevent the holding of this summit in Burundi. &#8220;The Secretary seems to be completing his mission of 20 July 2017 to prevent the holding of the 20th COMESA summit in Burundi,\u201d according to Burundian Foreign Minister&#8217;s correspondence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Sindiso N\u2019gwenya, Secretary General of COMESA declared on May 18th that the 20th summit of COMESA Heads of State and government which was expected to take place in Burundi from 1 to 10 June 2018 will be postponed and relocated to Lusaka, the Secretary of and Spokesman for Burundi Government, Philippe Nzobonariba said Burundi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[723,670],"tags":[80,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8837,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8823\/revisions\/8837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}