{"id":18108,"date":"2013-01-16T11:57:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T10:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2013\/01\/20130116_mali_riunione_ue-2\/"},"modified":"2013-01-16T11:57:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T10:57:57","slug":"20130116_mali_riunione_ue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2013\/01\/20130116_mali_riunione_ue\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali \u2013 EU meeting Thursday – Terzi: Italy ready to offer logistical support to operation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cItaly is ready to offer logistical support to the operation\u201d in Mali. The announcement was made by Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi in a report to the Senate today on international missions. The minister explained that the military operation launched by France with another group of countries against the rebels \u201cis in line with UN Security Council resolution 2085 of 20 December last\u201d that followed Malian President Traor\u00e9\u2019s plea for help.<\/P>
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Three-pronged approach<\/STRONG><\/P>
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The Italian government\u2019s approach to the Mali crisis is a three-pronged one that includes, first of all, \u201creiterating Italy\u2019s political support for efforts within the context of the UN resolution\u201d and, in accordance with \u201cwhat is being done at European level\u201d, offer \u201clogistical support for the operation, which \u201cwe have discussed with Monti and Minister Di Paola\u201d. Logistical support will be air-based, and not land-based, and include links with the French forces, Di Paola went on to explain.<\/P>
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Extraordinary meeting in Brussels<\/STRONG><\/P>
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The Mali crisis will be the central focus of an extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels tomorrow at which, Minister Terzi announced, they plan to reiterate \u201cthe absolute urgency of deploying 250 trainers (EUTM) to Bamako to contribute to the formation and training of a Malian army\u201d that has thus far \u201cnot been able to meet the challenge\u201d, with the additional aggravation of the political uncertainty that has followed a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat in that country. According to Terzi \u201cit is important to seek a rapid solution to this crisis in order to avoid the real threat of terrorist forces endemic to the territory\u201d.<\/P>
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European training mission launched<\/STRONG><\/P>
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EU High Representative Catherine Ashton announced that Mali\u2019s foreign minister would also attend tomorrow\u2019s meeting in Brussels, assuring that the European mission to train the Malian army (EUTM) would be launched \u201cas soon as possible\u201d and would help to \u201cretrain and reinforce the country\u2019s forces\u201d. The EU \u201csupports President Traor\u00e9 and his government\u2019s efforts to put Mali on a democratic path\u201d, Ashton added, announcing that she would be appointing a European special representative for the Sahel.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cItaly is ready to offer logistical support to the operation\u201d in Mali. The announcement was made by Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi in a report to the Senate today on international missions. The minister explained that the military operation launched by France with another group of countries against the rebels \u201cis in line with […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,76],"class_list":["post-18108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-africa","tag-ministri-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}