Mali government: France arms extremist terrorists.
In a letter to the head of the UN Security Council, Mali’s foreign minister said that France has repeatedly violated the country’s airspace and has delivered many weapons to extremist terrorists.
After the Paris government announced the end of the military intervention in Mali, the country’s government revealed France’s illegal actions in Mali in a letter to the United Nations.
The government of Mali announced on Wednesday evening that France has repeatedly violated the country’s airspace and has delivered many weapons to extremist terrorists in the country with the aim of destabilizing it.
In a letter to the head of the UN Security Council, Mali’s Foreign Minister Abdallah Diop wrote that the country’s airspace has been violated more than 50 times this year by the French Air Force using drones, military helicopters and fighter jets. .
According to the Reuters news agency, the letter states: “France used this clear violation of Mali’s airspace to gather information for terrorist groups operating on the coast and deliver weapons and ammunition to them.”
Mali’s foreign minister stated that his country has evidence that shows that France has sent weapons to extremist terrorist groups, while it claims to have withdrawn billions of dollars over a decade to fight these terrorists.
In this letter, Diop also asked the Security Council to intervene in this matter as soon as possible and prevent France from sending more weapons to extremist terrorist groups in Mali.
It was on Wednesday that France announced that following the decision it made in February to withdraw its forces from Mali in response to the deterioration of relations between Paris and Bamako, today the last part of these Mali forces left. (More details)
France and its military allies have said that after almost a decade of intervention in Mali under the pretext of fighting extremist militias in West Africa, they now want to direct their intervention operations from Niger instead of Mali.
Coups in countries such as Mali, Chad and Burkina Faso have weakened France’s alliances in these former colonies, while Reuters wrote that these developments have emboldened militias that control large parts of the desert there and opened the door to Russia’s influence in this area has increased.
