Transition in Mali: the committee of experts handed over its work to the junta

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In Mali, the committee of experts returned its work on Tuesday, September 8 to the junta.

These experts were appointed to synthesize the proposals and identify a guideline after the first consultations last weekend in Bamako and in the regions of Mali.

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Two documents were handed over to the junta's legal adviser, Youssouf Z Coulibaly.

These are two projects: a roadmap and a charter which were drawn up

by the twenty or so experts

who make up the committee.

In these documents, which have not been made public, we find proposals to outline the contours of the transition.

Proposals on " 

the organs, the relations between these future institutions, the principles and qualities of those who govern them

 ", slips a member of the committee of experts.

“ 

These are above all avenues for reflection.

These texts will be discussed and reworked,

 ”he continues.

Because this Thursday, start new consultations scheduled until September 12.

And it is the crucial issues of the moment that will be debated, namely the duration of the transition or the distribution of posts between civilians and soldiers.

The list of participants is large and still open.

Political parties, the press, unions, civil society organizations are invited, but also “ 

regional and diaspora delegates

 ”, specifies the CNSP.

This meeting should take place in the presence of its president,

Colonel Assimi Goïta

, who was absent during the first consultations last Saturday.

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