Mali: the African Union for a transition of 16 months maximum
The African Union supports the sanctions and especially calls on the Malian authorities for a short extension of sixteen months maximum.
(illustrative image) MICHELE CATTANI / AFP
Text by: David Baché
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The Peace and Security Council of the African Union met just a week ago, but its conclusions were only communicated this Friday, January 21. During this meeting entirely devoted to Mali, the Council endorsed ECOWAS positions.
The African Union therefore supports the sanctions and above all calls on the Malian authorities for a short extension of a maximum of sixteen months.
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“
An undue extension of the transition process in Mali.
For the African Union, the timetable proposed by the Malian authorities - an extension of five, then four years, of the transition period - is considered "
unconstitutional, inadmissible, inappropriate and constitutes a serious obstruction of the democratic process in the country.
The condemnation could not be firmer.
The African Union pleads for a “
rapid
” return to the constitutional and democratic order “
led by civilians
” and supports for this the
mediation proposal formulated by Algeria
.
The deadline proposed by Algiers, a maximum of sixteen additional months of transition before the organization of the presidential and legislative elections, is deemed “
appropriate and feasible.
»
A position which, after the proposal of the Malian authorities of transition, gives the measure of the ambitions of each.
ECOWAS has never officially pronounced on the deadline that it would consider “
acceptable.
»
While the transitional authorities are delighted with their recent military successes, the African Union deplores “
the deterioration of the security situation
” and “
the absence of State authority in central Mali
”.
Finally, the AU condemns “
the continued imprisonment
” of political figures and former Malian leaders “
by the transitional authorities
”, which it qualifies as “
illegal
”, and demands their release.
A paragraph which alludes, without quoting them, to former Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maïga, to former Minister of the Economy Ms. Bouaré Fily Sissoko, to former Secretary General of the Presidency Kalilou Doumbia as well as to other collaborators of the first president of the transition
Bah N'Daw
- who is no longer under house arrest.
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