Prime Minister of Mali, Abdoulaye Maiga, Complains Against France, Calls for Guterres' Involvement By Mali Web, September 25, 2022

Abdoulaye Maiga, interim Prime Minister of Mali, giving a speech at the UNGA, September 24, 2022

 

Mali's complaint against France: Bamako calls for Guterres' personal involvement

Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga, interim Prime Minister of Mali, slammed Saturday at the UN podium the French authorities, which he described as a "junta"

Mali's acting prime minister, Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga, has formally requested the personal involvement of UN Secretary-General António Guterres in the Security Council so that his country's complaint against the France succeeds "so that the duplicity and proxy war imposed on Mali cease."

Speaking Saturday at the UN rostrum on the occasion of the general debate of the 77th ordinary session of the United Nations General Assembly, Abdoulaye Maiga, also castigated on this occasion what he described as "Obscurantism of the French junta nostalgic for neocolonial practice, condescending, paternalistic and revanchist".

The Head of the Transitional Government in Mali indicated that "Bamako denounces the negative external influences and the attempts to instrumentalize certain entities legally present in Mali, to serve hidden agendas, including through the exploitation of the issue of human rights for the purpose of destabilization".

Abdoulaye Maiga said his country was "stabbed in the back by the French authorities" following Paris' unilateral decision to withdraw the Barkhane force from Mali.

And the Malian leader affirms: "The French authorities deeply anti-French for having renounced universal moral values and betrayed the heavy humanist heritage of the philosophers of the Enlightenment, have transformed themselves into a junta at the service of obscurantism."

"Obscurantism of the French junta nostalgic for neocolonial practice, condescending, paternalistic and revanchist, which has ordered and premeditated unprecedented, illegal, illegitimate and inhuman sanctions of ECOWAS and the West African Economic and Monetary Union against Mali," he said.

The senior Malian official explained that the obscurantism of the French junta "has been guilty of instrumentalizing ethnic differences, so quickly forgetting its responsibility in the genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda, also guilty of desperately trying to divide Malian children from the same family."

He also recalled that this obscurantism of the French junta is the same one that has "violated Malian airspace by flying air delivery systems such as drones, military helicopters and fighter jets, more than fifty times, by bringing intelligence, weapons and ammunition to terrorist groups".

"After more than 10 years of insecurity that has left thousands dead, as many refugees and internally displaced, is it not sacrilege to put a Malian population victim of insecurity in a landlocked country under embargo for 7 months, by closing the borders and seizing Mali's financial accounts?" he asked.

Given the gravity of the acts committed by "the French junta", continues Colonel Maiga, "Mali in its letter dated August 15, 2022, requested the holding of an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council. The purpose of this meeting is to allow Mali to present the evidence in its possession, demonstrating that the French army has repeatedly attacked my country, repeatedly and frequently violating Malian airspace, without authorization from the Malian authorities and sometimes by falsifying flight documents."

"By referring the matter to the Security Council, the Government of Mali intends to hold this important body, primarily responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security, accountable and denounce the actions of the French junta against my country; these hostile acts are incompatible with the Charter of the United Nations and its status as a permanent member," said Colonel Maiga, who requested the personal involvement of UN Secretary-General António Guterres with the Security Council to bring his country's complaint against the France to a successful conclusion.

Source: https://www.aa.com.tr/fr/

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