Following a successful four-day state visit to The Gambia by His Excellency, General Joao Bernardo Vieira, President and Head of State of The Republic of Guinea Bissau, at the invitation of President Dr Alhaji Yahya Jammeh, President and Head of State of the Republic of The Gambia, a joint communique was yesterday issued after a tete-a-tete at the State House, Banjul.
During the tete-a-tete, the two Heads of States reviewed the political and economical situation of the two countries, the development in the sub-region, the excellent relations between the two countries and peoples, underscored the need to prioritise peace and stability in the two countries, reviewed the current political and socio-economic situation in the West Africa sub-region and stressed their strong conviction that there could be no internal stability without regional peace and therefore undertook to cooperate in the fight against all forms of threat to peace, security and progress of the two countries and the West Africa sub-region.
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