UN / MALI

In an election year in Mali, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mahamat Saleh Annadif, told the Security Council that the implementation of the peace agreement “needs to remain a priority, and it must not become political football.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:11
• Production Date: 11 April 2018
• Asset Language: French
• Personal Subject: MAHAMAT SALEH ANNADIF
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MULTIDIMENSIONAL INTEGRATED STABILIZATION MISSION IN MALI - MINUSMA
• Subject Topical: ELECTIONS; PEACE AND SECURITY; PEACE PROCESS
• Geographic Subject: MALI
• MAMS Id: 2127235
• Parent Id: 2127235
• Alternate Title: unifeed180411c

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STORY: UN / MALI
TRT: 02:11
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 11 APRIL 2018, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

11 APRIL 2018, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Mali:
“2018 is an election year. The Malian actors should not lose sight of the fact that the implementation of the agreement, despite the elections, needs to remain a priority., and it must not become political football.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Mali:
“As far as the peace agreement is concerned, I acknowledge that it is a complex process, but your Council must hold the signatory parties to account in order to ensure that the roadmap signed on 22 March does not become a mere piece of paper. It is time to move from promises and pledges to actual action and to show respect for the deadlines.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Mali:
“Your Council must call upon all Malian politicians to respect the timeline, but also encourage them to approach these election in a consensual spirit, peacefully, and make sure that they are credible. Otherwise this will add crisis upon crisis, heaping concern upon concern which will only serve as a fertile breeding ground for the enemies of peace. They will be the only winners should that take place.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Tiéman Hubert Coulibaly Minister of Foreign Affairs and
of International Cooperation:
“I would like here before you all to state categorically that our government is determined to hold the elections by the dates established by our constitution and to do so in a transparent, inclusive, and credible way. We are also committed to ensure that elections take place across the entire country. The visit of the Prime Minister in the northern regions, which I mentioned earlier, was an opportunity to underscore the adhesion of the signatory movements to the electoral process.”
11. Wide shot, Council

Storyline

In an election year in Mali, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mahamat Saleh Annadif, today (11 Apr) told the Security Council that the implementation of the peace agreement “needs to remain a priority, and it must not become political football.”

Annadif, who is also the Head of the UN Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), noted that over the past three months, trust between the signatories to the Peace Agreement had improved.

Acknowledging that “it is a complex process,” he urged the Council to “hold the signatory parties to account in order to ensure that the roadmap signed on 22 March does not become a mere piece of paper.”

He said, “it is time to move from promises and pledges to actual action and to show respect for the deadlines.”

Annadif also urged the Council to encourage Malians to “approach these election in a consensual spirit, peacefully, and make sure that they are credible.”

Otherwise, he said, “this will add crisis upon crisis, heaping concern upon concern which will only serve as a fertile breeding ground for the enemies of peace. They will be the only winners should that take place.”

Addressing Malian Foreign Minister, Tiéman Hubert Coulibaly, said “I would like here before you all to state categorically that our government is determined to hold the elections by the dates established by our constitution and to do so in a transparent, inclusive, and credible way.”

He said, “we are also committed to ensure that elections take place across the entire country. The visit of the Prime Minister in the northern regions, which I mentioned earlier, was an opportunity to underscore the adhesion of the signatory movements to the electoral process.”

Some 4.3 million people are now estimated to need food assistance in Mali, compared to 4.1 million in late 2017. This is the highest level of needs in Mali since the 2011/2012 food insecurity crisis throughout the Sahel region.