Published on : 24/09/2022 – 23:12
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.
With our special correspondent in New York, Leonard 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. Neither Anthony Guterresthe 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, which chairs the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Neither the Nigerian president, Mohamed Bazoumreferred to as ” of a foreigner claiming to be from Niger ».
But his harshest attacks targeted 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, betrayed the heavy humanist heritage of the philosophers of the Enlightenment and transformed themselves into a junta at the service of obscurantism. »
France ” support and arm terrorists “, he claimed, saying he had evidence for the Security Council. A ” french junta ” who ” instrumentalize “of human rights, however” 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 matters “, swore Abdoulaye Maiga : « 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 was made, however: free elections in 2024, for a Mali “ freed from the obscurantist and destructive forces of the world ».