2023-06-30 16:01:05
The UN Security Council has initiated an end to the mission in West African Mali. The mission should be ended following a transitional period of six months at the end of the year, the Council decided in a resolution on Friday in New York. Two members of the armed forces are currently stationed with the UN mission MINUSMA in Mali’s capital Bamako.
In addition, four Austrian military personnel are in Mali as part of the EU training mission EUTM. The Ministry of Defense emphasized that this was completely unaffected by the decision.
Mali’s military junta, which is working more closely with Russia, had demanded the immediate withdrawal of all 12,000 UN peacekeepers in mid-June. The UN mission has been active in Mali since 2012, when Islamist militias overran the north of the country. They are now also terrorizing the center of the Sahel state and its neighboring countries. After two military coups in 2020/21, Mali is now seeking cooperation with Russia. The Russian mercenary force Wagner is said to be in Mali with up to 2,000 fighters, although Colonel Assimi Goïta’s junta officially only speaks of trainers.
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