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STORY: UN / MALI PEACEKEEPING
TRT: 02:
SOURCE: UNIFEED / MINUSMA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 APRIL 2018, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
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11 APRIL 2018, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK CITY
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3. SOUNDBITE (French) Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Mali:
“Despite the positive actions we are taking, we are labelled as the United Nations mission with the highest number of deaths. One of the reasons for this is that this is a peace mission but it is being deployed in an environment where there is no peace.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (French) Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Mali:
“For now, the mission is indispensable to support the peace and reconciliation agreement in Mali. The mission is indispensable to help Mali to increase its strength until it can be fully deployed administratively throughout the north of the country. That’s part of the mandate. The mission is also indispensable to help Mali to rebuild some of its administrative tools that had been destroyed, and to accompany and assist the Malians in reconciliation.”
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7. SOUNDBITE (French) Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Mali:
“The elections are important in the sense that in 2013 there had been a coup d’état, there had been rebellions in the north of Mali, and it was very important to re-establish the constitutional order. The elections now in 2018 are a test. A test to see that democracy, alternating democracy, has reached a point of no return”
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The Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), Mahamat Saleh Annadif, today (11 Apr) told journalists that one of the reasons MINUSMA registers the highest number of deaths among UN missions is that it is “a peace mission but it is being deployed in an environment where there is no peace.”
Annadif said, “for now, the mission is indispensable to support the peace and reconciliation agreement in Mali. The mission is indispensable to help Mali to increase its strength until it can be fully deployed administratively throughout the north of the country. That’s part of the mandate. The mission is also indispensable to help Mali to rebuild some of its administrative tools that had been destroyed, and to accompany and assist the Malians in reconciliation.”
After telling the Security Council that the implementation of the peace agreement needs to remain a priority during an election year, Annadif highlighted the importance of the elections themselves.
He said “the elections are important in the sense that in 2013 there had been a coup d’état, there had been rebellions in the north of Mali, and it was very important to re-establish the constitutional order. The elections now in 2018 are a test. A test to see that democracy, alternating democracy, has reached a point of no return”
The UN mission in Mali is one of the most dangerous, having taken more than 160 peacekeepers’ lives.
MINUSMA was established to quell the violence and instability in the wake of a 2012 military overthrow of the government in Bamako and subsequent takeover of the country's vast northern region by rebels.
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