July 10 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Colonel Assimi Goita, leader of the coup military junta that now governs Mali, has applauded the lifting of the international community’s sanctions on the African country due to his discrepancies over the duration of the transition process.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) decided earlier this week to partially lift the sanctions against the country, although it has maintained financial reprimands against the leaders of the junta, to give an opportunity to the process of national stabilization, threatened for jihadism.
“We are delighted that the tension born of the differences between the ECOWAS demands for quick elections and the will of our people to create the conditions for lasting political stability has dissipated”, declared the so-called “transition president”. in a speech to the nation.
Goita led the coup against Keita in August 2020 and subsequently led a second coup in May 2021 against Mali’s transitional authorities — at which point he overthrew the president and prime minister, Bah Ndaw and Moctar Ouane. , rising to power.
“Mali’s pan-Africanist vocation will never be denied and our country will always work to consolidate solidarity among African peoples and promote African unity,” he added in the speech, collected on the Malijet portal.
The colonel recalled that his board has taken “strong measures” to respond to the “ardent popular desire” for transition, such as the creation of a consensus committee among the different groups of Malian society, as well as a Constitutional Assembly to draft the new Magna Carta.
ECOWAS imposed sanctions after the postponement of the elections scheduled for February and proposed a period of between 12 to 18 months for the Malian coup plotters to hand over power to civilian authorities through new elections, although the junta recently announced an extension of two years of the transition period.
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