Mali: a meeting to relaunch the monitoring of the Algiers agreement
June 2020: Mahamat Saleh Annadif, United Nations Special Envoy for Mali and Malian Defense Minister Ibrahima Dahirou Dembele, at the inauguration of the new Minusma HQ in Bamako (illustration).
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From New York to Bamako via Paris and Algiers, one of the priorities of the chancelleries accredited in Mali is the implementation of the Algiers peace agreement signed in 2015 between the armed groups of northern Mali and the government. .
This provides for a better representativeness of the populations of the north of the country and to disarm the movements of ex-rebels or loyalists in order to integrate them into the army to put an end to the tensions simmering in these regions.
But for five years this agreement has been slipping.
A meeting of diplomats was held Thursday, October 1 in Bamako.
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With our correspondent in Bamako
,
Kaourou Magassa
It had been months since the international mediation for the follow-up of
the Algiers peace agreement
had met.
In question, the socio-political crisis that Mali is going through and the reversal of institutions on August 18.
Western and African diplomats seated around
Mahamat Saleh Annadif,
head of the United Nations Mission in Mali and Bouhalem Chebihi, Algerian ambassador, reaffirmed their wish to see this agreement erected as a priority: "
It remains of course to wait that the government be formed so that we can have more visibility in relation to the framework that will be responsible for implementing the agreement
.
"
Same story in New York where
Antonio Guterres,
Secretary General of the UN, considers this agreement essential for the stability of the country.
“
There is no viable alternative.
I call on the transitional authorities to take ownership of the agreement,
”he said.
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In Mali, the signatory movements are involved in setting up the transitional bodies.
And to the question of whether it will take another five years to see progress on the implementation of the peace agreement, Boualem Chebihi, Algerian diplomat and chairman of the agreement monitoring committee, replied: "
We we hope that things will speed up to the satisfaction of Malians Insh'Allah
. ”
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