Joint Declaration on the implementation of the Agreement on Peace and Reconciliation in Mali from the Algiers Process

On the 8 March 2017, the African Union (AU), the United Nations (UN), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and the European Union (EU) as members of the Mediation Team supporting the implementation of the Agreement on Peace and Reconciliation in Mali resulting from the Algiers Process commended the parties to the Agreement for the effective launch on 28 February of the interim authorities in Kidal and on 2 March in Ménaka and Gao. They encouraged the parties to complete this process and urge them to overcome the difficulties that were impeding the establishment of the interim authorities in the Taoudéni and Timbuktu regions.

In view of the important steps still to be taken, the AU, the UN, ECOWAS, and the EU invited the parties to the Agreement to continue to honour the commitments made, in particular at the high-level meeting of the Agreement Monitoring Committee held in Bamako on 10 February.

However, The AU, the UN, ECOWAS, and the EU are deeply concerned by the deteriorating security situation in Mali, as evidenced by the increased number of deadly attacks and clashes, especially in the north and central regions. They also called on the parties to the Agreement to work closely together to improve intercommunal relations, share information about security threats, and take concrete steps to prevent and counter violent extremism and terrorism and spill-over into the region.

• Primary Source

EU: EEAS: Mali and the EU https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/11062/mali-and-eu_en

ESO: Background information: Third progress report on the Partnership Framework with third countries under the European Agenda on Migration http://www.europeansources.info/record/third-progress-report-on-the-partnership-framework-with-third-countries-under-the-european-agenda-on-migration/

ESO: Background information: EU-African Union relations: joint communiqué of the AU Peace and Security Council and the EU Political and Security Committee http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-african-union-relations-joint-communique-of-the-au-peace-and-security-council-and-the-eu-political-and-security-committee/

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