MONROVIA, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- The security sector in Guinea will undergo reform following presidential elections later this year, Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) commission Mohamed Ibn Chambas has said.

"A major agenda in Guinea once constitutional order is reestablished is the launch of a comprehensive Security Sector Reform (SSR)," Chambas said Thursday when he addressed the 53rd, national day of the establishment of the Liberian army, which is undergoing reform after years of civil war in Monrovia.

He said military intervention in the politics of post- independence Africa produced a chequered legacy of chronic instability characterized by coups and counter-coups, repression and bad governance.

This has created a hostile environment not conducive to investment and socio economic development, Chambas told his audience.

The ECOWAS diplomat, who was delivering the keynote address at the ceremony, said what has been achieved in Liberia in reforming a vibrant military is a shining example that other countries in the sub-region such as Guinea must follow.

"Liberia is gradually rising to join the comity of nations on an equal footing," he said.

"Liberia can richly share her rich experiences with her neighbors who have been bedeviled by the same debilitating challenges from which she is steadily emerging," he added.

Chambas said ECOWAS and the African Union have remained seized with the precarious situation in Guinea.

He stressed the need for the two bodies to double efforts to accompany the people of Guinea to speedily complete the political transition to normal order through the holding of credible presidential and legislative elections.

On the role of ECOWAS to contain conflict in the region, Chambas said a mechanism for conflict prevention management, resolution, peace-keeping and security is in place.

According to him, the regional body is currently well advanced in establishing the ECOWAS Standby Force made up of composite military, police and civilian units drawn from member states, trained and equipped for rapid deployment in case of violent conflict, natural disaster and international peace keeping operations.

Earlier, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf recounted on how Liberia has benefited from the assistance and intervention of regional peace keeping operations during the course of the country's civil war.

Now that it is building up a new army, it should do so with the aimed to form part of future peace keeping operations to assist other countries when they are confronted with conflict, the president said.