The President of Faso, Head of State, Captain Ibrahim TRAORE received in audience, late Thursday morning, a special envoy of the President of the Republic of Senegal, Abdoulaye BATHILY, bearing a message of solidarity from his country, we learned from the presidency of Faso.Senegalese emissary Abdoulaye BATHILY is carrying a message from President Bassirou Diomaye FAYE to his counterpart, Captain Ibrahim TRAORE. "I came to Burkina Faso, bearing a message from President Diomaye FAYE, whose special envoy I am. (...) This message concerns the expression of solidarity of President Diomaye FAYE, his government and the Senegalese people towards the people of Burkina Faso in the current circumstances marked by terrorist attacks," said Abdoulaye BATHILY as he left the audience.Abdoulaye BATHILY expressed his country's concerns about the security situation in the Sahel and West Africa as a whole. "The people of our region have long aspired to unity, development, progress and security. When we see the spectacle t oday of what is happening in this region, we are deeply saddened," he said.The special envoy of President FAYE is convinced that this difficult page can only be turned in a synergy of actions between peoples, unity and solidarity within countries and between them. "There is no other future for us than this march towards progress, this desire for emancipation of African peoples," affirmed Mr. BATHILY.According to him, it is about seeing "how to synergize our intelligence, how to pool our human resources, our thoughts in a creative way to open a new period of relations, of qualitative, peaceful relations within countries, between countries."On the creation of the Confederation "Alliance of Sahel States (AES)" and the ambitions of its member states, the special envoy of President FAYE indicated that "each time a group of states considers that they can commit together to objectives that they have in common, it is a very good thing.""We must be able to explore all the possibilities that can make us advance on the path to our strategic objectives, that is to say economic emancipation, political emancipation, leading to the progress of our peoples," added Abdoulaye BATHILY.Source: Burkina Information Agency