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Leader of Azawad (MMA) Movement to Echorouk: “Morocco and France bent on undermining Algeria’s mediation efforts in Mali crisis”

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Leader of Azawad (MMA) Movement to Echorouk: “Morocco and France bent on undermining Algeria’s mediation efforts in Mali crisis”
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The leader of the Arab Azawad movement (MMA) Mr Dinha Ould Daye has told Echorouk that Algeria’s commendable mediation efforts aimed at bringing closer the parties at issue in Mali are being covertly undermined by both Morocco and France for unavowed reasons.

He said that France and Morocco were bent on scuttling the Algerian diplomatic efforts with the covert aim of precluding the reinforcement of Algeria’s role as a pivotal regional force in the whole region.

The Azawad leader further underlined that once a final agreement was thrashed out among all the contending parties on a settlement of the Malian crisis, they would take the necessary steps to stamp out all extremist armed groups notably those involved in the abduction of the Algerian diplomats two years ago in the northern part of Mali with on focus the volatile Kidal region.

Meanwhile, Mali’s government hopes to clinch a preliminary peace deal with northern Tuareg rebel separatists within eight weeks, the foreign minister said earlier this week.

Mali’s northern region – called Azawad by the Tuaregs – has risen up four times in the past 50 years, with various groups fighting for self-rule.

The last uprising in early 2012 prompted a coup in the capital and allowed Islamist groups to seize northern Mali.

Abdoulaye Diop told Malian state radio the first week of the Algiers talks would be devoted to discussions with the various Malian communities, especially those in the northern region.

“We hope that with the help of the mediators, after eight weeks of negotiations, we will have a pre-agreement,” the minister said.

Negotiators hope a deal can draw a line under the decades of hostilities and instability in the desert north of the West African nation.

The three main separatist groups – the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), the Arab Movement of Azawad, (MMA) and the High Council for the Unity of Azawad (HCUA), are demanding greater autonomy, however, the government has said any peace deal must respect Mali’s territorial integrity.

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