Malian president meets Noureddine Bedoui

Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita received, Thursday in Bamako, Minister of Interior and Local Authorities Noureddine Bedoui.
The audience was attended by Mali’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and African Integration Abdoulaye Diop, Minister of Territorial Administration Abdoulaye Idrissa Maiga as well as Algerian Ambassador to Mali Boualem Chebihi and Malian Ambassador to Algeria Nainy Toure.
In a statement to the press at the end of the audience, Bedoui said that he conveyed to the Malian president the greetings of President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika and expressed “his strong willingness and commitment to continuing to assist the government and people of Mali in the implementation of the Peace and Reconciliation Agreement in Mali, which was signed, first, in May 2015 and then in June 2015 by all Malian parties in Bamako after five rounds of inclusive inter-Malian dialogue, launched in July 2014 under the supervision of an international mediation team, led by Algeria.”
Bedoui added that the Malian president asked him to convey his greetings to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
The audience was an opportunity to “examine the mechanisms of the implementation of the Peace and Reconciliation Agreement in Mali,” he added.
The Interior minister reiterated “Algeria’s willingness to achieve the main lines of the agreement, to which President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika attaches special interest.”