At the UN podium, the Malian interim Prime Minister spares no one
Malian interim Prime Minister Abdoulaye Maïga speaking at the United Nations podium on September 24, 2022 in New York.
REUTERS - EDUARDO MUNOZ
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During the penultimate day of the 77th General Assembly of the United Nations, Abdoulaye Maïga came in force with a delegation and around thirty demonstrators hostile to France.
In a very offensive speech, he multiplied the virulent criticisms, in particular with regard to Côte d'Ivoire and France.
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With our special correspondent in New York,
Léonard Vincent
Solemn, cold, in a large white bazin, Abdoulaye Maïga spared no one when the time came for him to speak at the UN rostrum.
Nor
Antonio Guterres
, the Secretary General of the United Nations, to whom he kindly reminded that he was not a “
head of state
”.
Neither the Bissau-Guinean president,
Umaro Sissoco Embaló
, who chairs the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
Neither the Nigerien president,
Mohamed Bazoum
, described as "
a foreigner who claims to be from Niger
".
But his harshest attacks were aimed at France, with a formula repeated three times to the applause of his delegation: "
The French authorities, deeply anti-French for having denied universal moral values, have betrayed the heavy humanist heritage of the philosophers of the Enlightenment and turned into a junta in the service of obscurantism.
»
France "
supports and arms terrorists
", he claimed, saying he had evidence for the Security Council.
A "
French junta
" which "
instrumentalizes
" human rights that are nevertheless "
respected
" in Mali.
The Ivorian President, Alassane Ouattara, was also entitled to his five minutes and a mockery on third terms.
On
the case of the 46 Ivorian soldiers detained in Mali
, nothing new.
The Bamako authorities "
do not interfere in legal affairs
", swore
Abdoulaye Maïga
: "
The recent synchronization of actions and the organization of elements of language, consisting in passing Mali, my country, from the status of victim to that of culprit in this affair of the mercenaries, are obviously without effect.
»
A commitment has been made, however: free elections in 2024, for a Mali "
freed from the obscurantist and destructive forces of the world
".
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