UN delegation discuss Mali peace

Representatives of the fifteen member countries of the UN Security Council have “found” during their visit to Mali “a real will to make peace” with all parties involved in the process, said one of these ambassadors Sunday in Bamako.
“Like other members of the UN delegation, I have found in our discussions with all parties a real will to make peace and that is important,” said the representative of France, François Delattre, the last day of their mission began Friday night in Mali.
The delegation met with several Malian authorities, including President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.
She went to Mopti (center) and Timbuktu (north-west) before meeting Sunday with representatives of the Platform armed movement coalition supporting the government, coordination of movements of Azawad (CMA), ex- predominantly Tuareg rebellion, and civil society.
She reiterated the call for the UN to speed up the implementation of the peace agreement signed in Mali in May-June 2015 Bamako, the Platform and the CMA, but struggling to be applied.
The CMA and the Platform were also heard early February to live peacefully in Kidal (far northeast), until recently controlled by the former rebels.
These former rivals have announced the holding in that city from 27 to 30 March of a forum “for reconciliation” which should involve members of the government, while state officials are absent from several localities in region, some since 2012.
“We support this meeting”, which is “an important and welcome step. (…) We hope this will be a real success, “Mr. Delattre said.