Mali: German Foreign Minister Westerwelle Welcomes Political Roadmap

German Foreign Minister Westerwelle has welcomed the political road map produced by the Malian Government. Speaking in Berlin on January 28, he called it a good basis for international assistance. He said that the road map, which provides for a return to constitutional order, now had to be quickly passed by the Malian Parliament.

The Government of Mali adopted the road map on January 25, after several calls from the international community to put such a plan in place as a prerequisite for further assistance. In the long term, Westerwelle said, only a political solution would be effective. 

He said that the states of Africa, the Malian Government and France all shared that view. Pointing to the road map as a good basis for the search for such a solution, Minister Westerwelle affirmed that “the necessary military operations, which are increasingly led by Africans themselves, must now be coordinated with the political efforts.”

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