Published on : 13/08/2022 – 20:47
The rotations of the contingents of the UN Mission in Mali resume on Monday 15 August. This was announced on Saturday August 13 to AFP by the Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Information also confirmed by the Minusma. Rotations are therefore resuming after being suspended for a month. It is a recovery under new conditions.
Rotations resume with a new protocol. If the contingents had until now to seize the Malian authorities directly to obtain the green light for their rotations, they will have, from Monday, to go through the Minusma. It is the UN organization that will henceforth centralize the requests, study them, validate them and then forward them to the Malian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Mali, which had suspended Minusma rotations since July 14, announces this resumption the day after an important decision by Germany: Yesterday, the Minister of Defense indeed suspended, “ until further notice », the major part of the German military operations as part of the UN mission. A decision which followed a new refusal to fly over Malian territory targeting a German military aircraft.
But for the Malian authorities, “ The Germans must comply with the new procedures. Their Minister of Defense moved quickly to announce the suspension of their operations. It doesn’t impress us “Reacted the head of diplomacy, Abdoulaye Diop. While recalling that Germany will have to submit to the new approval procedures.