Algeria has taken note, with great regret and deep concern, of the cancellation denunciation by the Malian authorities of the Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Mali, resulting from the Algiers process.
Algeria takes note of this decision, the particular gravity of which it wishes to note for Mali itself, for the entire region which aspires to peace and security, and for the entire international community which has put everything its weight and many means to help Mali return to stability through national reconciliation.
Algeria has a duty to inform the brotherly Malian people. The latter knows that Algeria has never failed to work towards the implementation of the Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Mali, resulting from the Algiers process, with sincerity, good faith and unwavering solidarity towards Mali. Brother. The Malian people must also know and must convince themselves that the long list of reasons given in support of the cancellation of the Agreement absolutely does not correspond in any way to the truth or to reality.
Indeed, it has escaped no one’s notice that the Malian authorities had been preparing this decision for a long time. The warning signs for two years have been their almost total withdrawal from the implementation of the Agreement, their almost systematic refusal of any initiative tending to re-launch the implementation of this Agreement, their contestation of integrity of international mediation, their designation of signatories to the Agreement, duly recognized, as terrorist leaders, their request for withdrawal from MINUSMA, the recent intensification of their arms programs financed by third countries and their recourse to international mercenaries.
All these systematically implemented measures have carefully prepared the ground for the abandonment of the political option in favor of the military option as a means of resolving the Malian crisis.
The brotherly Malian people must know that such unfortunate and unwelcome decisions have proven in the past that the military option is the first threat to the unity and territorial integrity of Mali, that it carries within it the seeds of a civil war in Mali, that it postpones national reconciliation instead of bringing it closer and that it finally constitutes a source of real threat to regional peace and stability.
Mali still needs peace and reconciliation. He has no need for solutions which in the past have only brought him heartbreak, destruction and desolation. Repeating these mistakes of the past is unduly prolonging the tragedy and misfortunes for Mali and for the brotherly Malian people.—PR
