7315th meeting on the situation in Guinea-Bissau

Praising Guinea-Bissau for having restored constitutional order, making its public institutions more legitimate and forming an inclusive Government, top United Nations officials and other partners briefing the Security Council today also cautioned that the West African nation had reached a critical stage in its path towards stability and required sustained international support.
“The country cannot afford to continue the status quo,” Miguel Trovoada, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS) said in his first briefing on the country.
Joining Trovoada were Antonio de Aguiar Patriota (Brazil), Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission and the body’s Guinea-Bissau configuration, Domingos Simões Pereira, Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau, José Luís Guterres, Minister of State and Foreign Affairs of Timor-Leste, on behalf of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries, and Hanna Serwaah Tetteh, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of Ghana, in her capacity as Chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Council of Ministers.
The meeting began at 3:10 p.m. and ended at 3:55 p.m.