The stakes were particularly high for the West African countries, given that solving their social problems was a prerequisite to restoring peace to a region torn apart by wars caused mainly by poverty and underdevelopment, and to moving on to modernization and globalization.
鉴于解决它们的社会问题是使一个被起因于贫困和落后的战争分裂的地区重获和平并走向现代化和全球化的前提，所以对西非国家利害攸关。