The council extended a nine-year-old U.N. peacekeeping operation - known as MINUSMA - for another 12 months on Wednesday with 13 votes in favor, while Russia and China also objected to the rights mandate of the mission and abstained.
Mali's military took power in a 2020 coup and has cut ties with former colonial power France as a Russian private military contractor, Wagner Group, steps in to help with a decade long battle against militants.MINUSMA says it has documented 320 rights violations by Mali's military between January and March.
"Mali is not in a position to guarantee the freedom of movement for MINUSMA's inquiries without prior agreement of the government," Mali's U.N. Ambassador Issa Konfourou told the council. "Mali does not intend to comply with these provisions despite them being adopted by the Security Council.""MINUSMA must be able to get access to the areas affected in order to carry out its mandate and to publish quarterly reports on human rights.
The most notable case being investigated by MINUSMA is in the town of Moura, where witnesses and rights groups say the Malian army accompanied by white fighters killed scores of civilians they suspected of being militants.Russia's Deputy U.N.
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