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Gambia Waives Aliens Card on Senegalese

  1. Posted on Thursday 7 January 2010 - 18:45
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    Senegalese nationals resident in The Gambia will no longer pay aliens’ card says a joint communiqué signed by The Gambian President Yahya Jammeh and President Abdoulie Wade of Senegal.
    This decision is arrived at when the Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade made a two-day working visit to The Gambia, upon President Jammeh’s invitation.
    In a joint communiqué both leaders also agreed to build a bridge over the river Gambia, but to be managed by The Gambia. Jammeh and Wade further agreed to “work constructively” towards reviving the Senegalo-Gambian permanent secretariat.
    A Consultative Commission, according to the communiqué is to be convened, to be headed by the vice president of The Gambia and Prime Minister of Senegal jointly. While regular consultations will be made between ministers and senior government officials of both countries to reinforce the bilateral relations.
    President Abdoulie Wade’s two-day working visit to The Gambia also sees the resolve of both presidents to end the difference between the two nations.
    They agreed to settle their border differences through a Consultative Border Commission set up to the effect.
    Later during a press conference President Abdoulie Wade dismissed allegations of plotting with Kukoi Samba Sanyang, a Gambian rebel leader to bring down the government of The Gambia.
    Wade told journalists that his government has no interest to stabilize the government of The Gambia.
    Abdoulie Wade and his delegation left Banjul Wednesday. He extended an invitation to President Jammeh to visit Senegal, which was accepted, but the date is no announced.

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