EU training mission in Mali launched

EU News 78/2013

18 February 2013
Council of the European Union
Brussels
6340/13
PRESSE 54

The Council today launched the EU mission to support the training and reorganisation of the Malian Armed Forces. An advance party has arrived in Bamako on 8 February and will start the expertise and advisory tasks in the coming days. Military instructors are planned to be deployed before the end of March.

The operation, launched in the framework of UN Security Council resolution 2085 (2012), is an integral part of the EU's comprehensive approach to the situation in Mali and the Sahel. It is intended to help improve the military capacity of the Malian Armed Forces in order to enable them, under civilian authority, to restore the country's territorial integrity.

Source and additional information:
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/EN/foraff/135524.pdf

Launch of EUTM Mali - Press conference 18/02/2013. Credit "The Council of the European Union", 2013, URL 

 

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