Relaciones exteriores de Guinea

El 5 de mayo de 2009, el presidente Moussa Dadis Camara , quien tomó el poder en un golpe de Estado incruento tras la muerte del presidente Lansana Conté el 22 de diciembre de 2008, anunció la retirada de 30 embajadores de Guinea en otros países. ^{[ 6 ]} La orden se emitió mediante un decreto presidencial transmitido por la televisión estatal y fue la primera medida diplomática importante del nuevo líder. ^{[ 6 ]}

The decision affected ambassadors to the United States, South Korea, the People's Republic of China, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Egypt, South Africa, Italy, Japan, Brazil, Cuba, Switzerland, Serbia, Malaysia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Senegal, Nigeria, Libya, Ghana, Algeria, Morocco, Gabon, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau, comprising almost all of Guinea's foreign embassies.^[6][7][8] The Guinean representatives to the European Union, the United Nations and the African Union were also affected.^[6][7]

No reason was stated for the recall.^[7] The Tocqueville Connection states: "Most of the ambassadors were appointed by former prime minister Lansana Kouyaté, in office from February 2007 until May 2008,"^[7] raising the possibility that the recall was an attempt on the part of Camara to distance himself from the previous government.

In late March 2009, the Guinean ambassador to Serbia faced expulsion for personal involvement in cigarette smuggling (1,000 packs of cigarettes were found in his BMW) but avoided arrest due to diplomatic immunity (although he was declared as persona non grata).^[9]

The September 5, 2021 coup d'état brought swift condemnation and threats of sanctions from the United Nations, the African Union, the West African regional bloc ECOWAS (which suspended Guinea), and close allies of Guinea—as well as the United States—among others.^[10][11][12] China, uncharacteristically, also openly opposed the coup.^[13]