BAMAKO: France's Armed Forces Minister arrived in Mali on Sunday to pressure the military junta to end talks to bring Russian mercenaries into the country and push it to keep a promise to return the country to constitutional order in February.
But Mali's junta which seized power in August 2020, has dug in, noting that France has begun scaling down its decade-old operation against insurgents linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State across the region to include more European countries. An official from the French Armed Forces Ministry told reporters ahead of the visit that Parly would stress"the heavy consequences if this decision were to be taken by the Malian authorities."
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