UN Security Council ends Mali peacekeeping mission
- The UN Security Council voted unanimously to end the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali and transfer security responsibilities to Mali's transitional government, which came to power after a coup in 2021.
- UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for the full cooperation of the transitional government to ensure an orderly and safe withdrawal of MINUSMA's personnel and assets, as well as the continuation of the 2015 Agreement on Peace and Reconciliation in Mali.
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Under pressure from Mali junta, UN ends peacekeeping mission
NEW YORK, July 1 — The UN Security Council yesterday ended a decade-old peacekeeping mission in Mali, whose military junta has aligned with Russia and demanded the withdrawal of the international force battling jihadists. Bowing to the principle that peacekeepers need the consent of the host government, the Security Council voted unanimously to start immediately winding down the mission despite fears by Western powers of new instability in the t…
UN votes to end its peacekeeping mission in Mali as demanded by the country’s military junta
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to immediately end its peacekeeping mission in Mali as demanded by the country’s military junta, which has brought in mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group to help fight an Islamic insurgency. Mali, a landlocked country in West Africa, has grappled with the insurgency for over a decade. It has seen its relations with the international community become strained in part bec…
UN ends 10-year peacekeeping mission in Mali
The UN Security Council on Friday ended a decade-old peacekeeping mission in Mali, whose military junta has aligned with Russia and demanded the withdrawal of the international force battling jihadists. Bowing to the principle that peacekeepers need the consent of the host government, the Security Council voted unanimously to start immediately winding down the mission
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