NAM Meeting: Algerian Delegation Responds to Mali Junta’s FM
The Algerian delegation exercised its right of reply on Wednesday during the ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Kampala, Uganda, responding to statements made by the Foreign Minister of Mali’s coup-installed government targeting Algeria.
One of the junta’s spokespeople made a number of remarks that were both disparaging and unfounded toward Algeria. Algerian officials said these claims were “shameless lies and falsehoods that do not even attempt to appear plausible.”
“The putschists in Bamako increasingly spread gross falsehoods in response to their repeated failures,” the delegation said, adding that “this respected assembly has the right to know what is truly happening in Mali, which the junta desperately seeks to hide.”
Algeria emphasized that Mali is under a junta that carried out an unconstitutional change of power, leading to its suspension from the African Union. The delegation accused the junta of obsessively trying to absolve itself of its numerous failures and shifting the blame onto others, describing it as a “classic scapegoating strategy” that has largely failed.
“Everyone in Mali’s neighborhood, and across Africa, will tell you: this junta has brought misfortune to Mali. It alone is responsible for the instability, insecurity, and economic and social regression that its voracious quest for power has caused,” the Algerian statement said.
The delegation concluded that “beyond these facts, everything else from this poorly guided junta is merely diversionary tactics and stalling maneuvers, of which no one is fooled.”
