The top Ecowas mediator, Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore, told the meeting of politicians, religious and trade union leaders that a new government must "confront the terrorist peril in the north".
Ecowas chairman Alassane Ouattara, the president of Cote d'Ivoire, told the meeting - also attended by leaders of Niger, Togo, Benin and Nigeria - that "we cannot tolerate the partition of a brother country".
At the end of the summit, the leaders called for the International Criminal Court to investigate "war crimes" in northern Mali.
"They are asking the International Criminal Court to proceed with necessary investigations to identify those responsible for war crimes and to take the necessary action against them," a statement said.
The group also called on Mali to build a national unity government by July 31 that could "implement a roadmap to end the crisis".
And they asked "all parties taking part in the crisis for a complete end to hostilities before the month of Ramadan".
A summit source added that if a national unity government was not in place by the end of July, Ecowas would no longer recognise the government of Mali and the country could be suspended from sub-regional groups.
The meeting took place in the absence of Mali's interim president Dioncounda Traore, who has been receiving medical treatment in Paris since he was attacked by a mob in his office in May.
Also absent was Mali's prime minister, Cheikh Modibo Diarra, whose relations with Ecowas have been strained.
Representatives from Mali's north walked out just before the opening of the meeting, for unknown reasons.
Mali's renegade soldiers, after the March coup, agreed under intense regional and international pressure to hand power back to a civilian administration but have retained considerable influence.
The Popular Movement of March 22, which supports the coup, staged a protest rally in Bamako of "patriotic" groups against the Ecowas meeting. Organisers said 500 rallied while police put the figure at 250.
"This meeting is a protest against the meeting organized by Ecowas," a rally organiser, Nouhoum Keita said, stressing that the people of Mali alone must create a national unity government.
Keita said a national convention would be held July 14-16.
The coup - which soldiers justified by saying they were too poorly equipped to fight the northern rebels - has left Mali effectively split in two, with Islamist controlling an area larger than France or Texas.
The UN Security Council in a resolution Thursday expressed "deep concern" at the presence of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb fighters, who have been blamed for kidnappings and attacks in several countries.
But the council held back from giving a UN mandate to any West African force that could help Mali's interim government take back the territory.
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IS IT HARD TO SHY AWAY FROM THE CORRUPT UNITED NATIONS ONE THT IS LOPSIDED THEY ARE A PATRONISED SYSTEM THAT IS INTHE HANDS OF THE WEST NATO THEY CALL THE SHOTS THEY ARE INTO REGIME CHANGE AIR BOMBARDMENT DEMOCARCY AS THE RUSSIIANS CALL IT2 IS THIER ROOM FO INTELLIGENT ACTION IN AFRICA IS THE WORLD TOO MUCH OF A CHALLENGE FOR US IS SLAVERY A BETTER ALTERNATIVE. WHY ARENT YOU STRENGTHENINGT EH AFRICAN UNION?? MAKING MAN OF YOURSELVES RIGHT NOW ECOWAS AND EAST AFRICA ARE PROVIDING THE MOST INFILTRATION AND LESSENING OF POWERS IN THE AFRICAN CONTINENT. THEN WE ARE SEEING THE FRANCO FONE COUNTRIES ARE BEING PALYED ON WITH THIS LOYALTY TO FRANCE BULL CRAP THENWE SEE THE EVERYONE ELSE JOCKEYING FOR POSITIONS OF FAVOUR WITH THE AMERICASN WHO WANT CONFLICT BASES AND RAW MATERIALS. THEY WANT THE SALEV PALNTATION SCENARIO THEY DO NOT WANT TO SEE APORGRESSIVE AFRICA. WAS CHINA COMMING AND SELLING TO MILITIAS AND GROUPS TO FERMENT REVOLUTIONS OVERTHROWINMG GOVERNMENTS. CHINA WAS WIZE IT GAVE AFRICA THE BENIFIT OF THE DOUBT. WHERE DOES CHINA HAVE AIR BASES OR LAND TROOPS IN AFRICA YET THEY HAVE THE MOST TO LOSE??? CAN YOU NOT SEE THIS THEY CVAMT TO HELPDEVELOPMENT SEW STRONG INSTITUTIONS GIVING YOU BETTER ROADS RAILWAYS. NOW WE HAVE BOMBS DESTRUCTION ETC. I SAID TO YOU AS SOON AS THE DOOR OPENED FOR ESPECIALLY THE AMERICANS WE WOULD SEE ALL THESE THINGS!!! HOW DO I KNOW ?? THEY ARE ON A WORLD QUEST FOR HEGEMONY , THEY DO NOT WANT TO LOSE THEY HAVE SET THIER ALL ONTHIER MILITARY AT WHAT EVER COST. THIS IS THIE PROBLEM YOU CAN NOT FIX THAT. SHOULD YOU BEOME A TOOL OR PAWN OF THE WET YOU WILL SUFFER. HAS NOT HISTORY TAUHT YOU ANY LESSONS. HOW MUCH PAIN DO YOU HAVE TO SUFFER BEFORE YOU RECOGNISE THAT THEY ARE A EVEL SET OF BASTARDS THEY CARE NOT FOR DEMOCARCY. I SAW WHAT THEY DID TO JAMAICA IN THE 70S THEY TURNED JAMAICA INTO A CESSPOOL OF VIOLNECE AND CIVIL WAR. THY STARTED IMPORTING LARGE NUMBERS OF BIG MACHINE GUNS INSISTING THAT JAMAICANS TOOK UP ARMS AGAINST EACH OTHER IN ORDER TO GAIN THIER FAVOUR . THEY BLOCKED OUR WATER WAYS SO WE COULD NEITHER SEEL NOR RECIEVE ONLY WHAT THEY WANTED THEY FORCIBLY COLLAPSED ORU ECONOMMY SO WE FAIL WHY? BECAUSE WE WANTED TO DO BUSINESS WITH RUSSIAN AND THE EASTRNB LOC WHO WAS GIVING US A BETTER PRICE FOR OUR SUGAR AND OTHER MATERIAL WHICH WAS BAUXITE. WHNE WE THEN PORTECTED OUR ECONOMY BY EXPORTING AGNGA THEY THEN CAME INTO JAMIACA WITH THIER POISONS AND POISONED OUR FERTILE ARAES SO WE HAD NO OPTION OTHER THAN DEPENDENCY. THIS A LESSON THAT SHOULD NTO EB LOST ON AFRICANS . SHOULD THEY PERSISIT WITH AMERICAN FAVOUR THEY WILL LOSE WHEN YOU BECOME DEPENDENT ON THEM YOUR PRICE VALUE IS DECREASED ONE HUNDRED FOLD. THE PRICES FOR INTERNAL GOODS WILL ESCALATE AS THEY WILL TAKE EVRYTHING AT BARGAIN BASEMENT PRICES AND YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO LIFT ANY MILLIONS OUT OF PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY . AS IT STANDS NOW AFRICA WITH A SOVERIEGN UNION COULD ORGANISE A GREAT TRADING BLOCK WITH WHOM SOEVER YOU CHOSE. WHAT AFRICA NEES TO SHY AWAY FROM IS THIS SECURITY TRAP TALK BY THE UNITED SATYES, THEY ARE THE BIGGEST FERMENTERS OF WAR ON AND CONFLICT ONTHE PLANET ; SHOULD THE WORLD BECOEM A UNITED NATION OF STATES AS WAS THE WISH OF HIS MAJESTY HAILE SELASSIE 1ST. AFRICA AND THE WORLD WOULD SHARE WHAT HE IMAGINED TO BE WORLD CITIZENSHIP WHERE EVERY NATION WOULD BE EQUAL IN ALL ITS RIGHTS AND WAR FARE WOULD BE LESSNED AND THE NEED FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THE NEED OF BALISTIC MISSILES WOULD BE ERADICATED. MAN AND MAN WOULD LEARN TO SIT AND TALK , TALK WITH A FRESH MIND POISED WITH SINCERE BELIEF AND FAITH THAT E CAN PUSH OUR DIFFERNCES ON SIDE AND REACXH AMICABLE AGREEMENTS. THIS IS NOT THE WIL OF THE UNITED SATES THEY HAVE A DESIRE HOW ILL CONCEIVED OR DELUSIONAL AS T MAY BE THEY WANT TO RULE EVRYONE ONT HE PLANETY DICTATING HWO EVRYONE SHOULD LIVE WITH THEM THIER COURT INWASHINGTON AS HEAD QUARTERS. THIS DREAM HAS DIED SO NOW THEY ARE WORKING A DIFFERNT ANGLE WHERE THEY USE THE ICC AS BAIT. WHEN AFRICANS DECRY TO THE ICC TO USE THE DESTRUCTION OF TOMBS AS WAR CRIMES YES I CAN SEE WHERE YOU WANT TO GO WITH THIS; HWOEVER THIER IS ANOTHER MORE PERILS ROUTE WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT THE ISLAMIST WILL DIG IN EVEN MORE ; WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS TALK TO THE TAUREGS THE OTHER MAIN PARTY FROM MALI WHO DO NOT TRULY WANT TO UNDERMINE THE UNITY OF THE STATE THERE MUST BE A RECONCILLAITION HWERE THOSE FROM OUTSIDE WHOM ARE NOT TRUE AFRICAN LIBERATORS WHICH IS ROLE THAT AFRICAN LEADERS NEED TO ADOPT. TO BECPOEM PART OF THE PROBLEM IS NOT VERY WIZE. WHAT EVR OUR CIRCUMSTANCE THE ICC IS NOT THE ANSWER DID YOU HEAR WHAT THEY CHARGE AFRICASN WITH THESE ARE THE THINSG THEY DO AND PRACTICE . WHEN I SEE HOW THY KIDNAPPED GBAGBO KIDNAPPED HIM LIKE A COMMON SLAVE OF THIER THOUGHTS. THE MAN IS AN ACADEMIC A PROFESSOR WELL EDUCATED A PAN AFRICANIST HWO WAS SHOVED INTO PRISON BY SOEM FOOLS WHO THOUGHT IF THEY SOLD CHRIST FRO RICE AND PEAS THEY WOULD GET A SEAT AT THE SECRUTIY COUNCIL TABLE. MU FRIENDS THIS RESERVED FRO THIER FREINDS ONLY IF THE JEW COULD GETA TABLE THEY WOULD BE THERE . THE ONLY WAY AFRICA CAN GERT A SEAT IS TO EARN IT WITH PRTIDE NOTM BE KISSING ASS AND SUCKING BUIDDY!!!!!!. THESE LEADERES WHO ARE THINKING WITH THIER BUTTS NOT THIER BRAINS NED TO SIGHT AND OVERSTAND WHAT REALITY IS WHAT FREE AND INDEPENDENT MEANS """ NOT FREE AND DDICTATED TO NOT FREE AND DEPENDENT THESE ARE TRAVESTIES. WE ARE AN INTELLIGENT RACE WE CAN CCOMPLISH ALL OU WILLS. WE HAVE ASTRONGEAGER PEOPLE WHO WANT TO WORK FOR THIER PALCE IN LIFE THEY DO NOT WANT TO WAIT FOR YOU TO FEED THEM. WE HAVE A VERY YOUNG AFRICA ONE THAT IS VAIBRANT THE OLD WAYS MUST BE LEFTY WAY INTH PAST. THOSE GRANDFATHER WAYS OF KISSING BUTS IS NO GOOD TO THE YOUTHS. THEY WILL RBEL THEY WILLREVOLT AND THE WEST IS EAGRE TO SUPPLY WEAPONS THRU PLACES LIEK QATAR WHO HAS A NEW VESTED INETERST IN LIBYA. I DO NTO SEE HOW THE AU' SAW FAIR ELECTIONS IN LIBAY WITH HALF ITS POPULATIUON KICKED OUT LIVING IN TUNISIA AND EGYPT CAN NOT GO HOEM . IF THEY TALK ABOT GADAFFI THEY WILL EB SUMMARILY EXECUTED AS THEY DID TO HIM, THERE ARE 30,000 PRISINERS BEING TORTURED DAILY BURNED TILL TEHY PASOUT REVIVED BY DOCTORS TO RETORTURED ,YET ,YOU SAW THIS A VIBRANT FAIR ELECTION? SHOWING HOW MUCH LIBYA HAS MOVED ON WITH FAIRNESS AND EQUALITY. WHAT A JOKE!!!! THEY HAD A DICTATOR PRIOR TO GADAFFI IN THE NAME OF A CORRUPT KING;WHO WAS SELLING THEM OUT TO ITALY; THEY HAD A REVOLUTION BY GADAFFI ; THIS REVOLUTION WAS COUNTERED BY THE WEST NATO AND FREINDS , ALLIES IN THE NAME OF DICTATORS AND KINGS . LOOK AT THE HYPOCRISY THEY OVERTHREW A DICTATOR AS THEY SAY WITH THIER ALLIES OTHER DICTATORS KINGS AUTOCRATS ;;NOW THE WEST IS CLAIMING THEY DID A GREAT THING IN LIBYA AND YOU THE AFRICAN UNION' IS SUBSTANTIATING THIS. THE AFRICAN UNUION STOOD UP LIKE BIG MAN AND SAID NO WE WONT EXCEPT ANY MORE VIOLENCE IN AFRICA AFTER WHAT YOU SAW IN IVORY COAST , NOW YOU ARE JOINING THE RANKS OF THE OPPRSSOR WHERE IS YOUR PRIDE AND DIGNITY OR UOU DO NOT HAVE THAT???. IS IT SO EAY TO GIVE UP ?? IS THIS HOW YOU WANT YOUR CHILDREN TO GROW LIKE LITTLE SHEEP ALWAYS BEING DICTATED TO ALWAYS BULLIED ALWAYS BEGGING. WHY BOTHER TO EDCATE ORUSELVES WHY DONT WE JUST WAIT FOR THE WEST TO FEED US WAIT FRO THEM TO WIPE OUR BUMS WHEN WE GET DIRTY. WE SHOUDL ALWAYS BE DEPENDENT IS NOT WHAT ORU LEADERS ARE SAYING, THEY ALONMG WITH THE WEST THING WE DONT HAVE THE BRAINS TO HAVE ORU OWN COURTS OF LAWS THIS IS WHY THEY WANT US TO BE HOMOSEXUALS THIS IS WHY THEY WANT TO MAKE OUR LAWS INEFFECTIVER SO THEY CAN COME INTO AFRICA WHEN THEY WANT, USE OUR WOMEN USE OUR CHILDREN IN THIER PERVERTED WYAS. WHILE WE BOW SHUFFLE BEG FOR THEM TO RECOGNISE. WE DONT NEED ANY ONE TO RECOGNISE US WE WANT THE PEOPLE TO LOVE EACHOTHER GIVING HOPE TO ALL OUR CITIZENS. WHENEVER WE START BOWING AB SCRAPING THEY TAKE YOU FOR PUNKS AND STYART TAKING ADVANTAGE THEY ARE ENSLAVERS WHAT MORE OR WHO ELSE DO YOU TAKE THEM FOR?? DI YOU SEE A COALITION OF DEMORCATS RESOLVING LIBYA>> NOT AT ALL THEY SIDLINED YOU SPOKE ABOUT YOU AS IF YOU WERE INSIGNIFICANT TAKING YOU FOR GRANTED LEAVING YOU TO NOW LIE TO THE EARTH TELLING STORIED WHAT WE SEE IN LIBAY AS A COUNTRY FILLED WITH MILITIAS RUNNING THIER SECTIONS AS THEY WISH THE ELECTIONS IS BEING USED NOW BYU THE WEST TO GET SIGNATORIES TO THIER RIGHTS FOR OIL AND WHATEVER ELSE THEY CAN GET FROM LIBYA. THEY CAN SEND INTHIER MOSAD AGENST TO SPY AND DISRUPT EGYPT FORTUNATELY THE PRESIDENT IS MAKING WIZE MOVES CONSOLIDATING WHAT IS THE RIGHT WAY FORWARD FOR ALL AFRICA . THE PEOPLE ARE THE OWNERS GOVERNERS THE TITLE TO THE KINGDOM BELONGS TO ALL THE PEOPLE, THE POLITICIANS ARE ITS SERVANTS NOT THE RULERS AS THE WEST WANTS TO CONTINUE AS THEY STILL HAVE AND PROMOTE THIER ALLIES THIER DICTATOR ALLIES THIER FREINDS WHO COMMIT GENOCIDE AGAINST A PEOPLE DAILY WITH BOMBRDMENTS INCURSSIONS WHENEVER THEY FEELIKE IT, THESE THINSG ALL VIOLATE INTERNATIONAL LAWS AND THIS THE WAY THEY WANT YOU TO GO SO WHAT IS IT THE TRUE WAY STEEPED WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS OR THE FALSAE HYPOCRITICAL WAY WHICH IS THE WAY YOU MUST GO WHEN YOU ARE AN ALLY OF THE WEST??? THERE ARE TWO RODAS BEWFORE YOU CHOOSE RMEBER THAT THERE ARE ONE BILLION PLUS PEOPLE WHEN YOU THINK YOPU ARE CHOOSING!!!??? WHAT DIDI GADAFFI DO FOR AFRICA?? HE WAS SPEAKING ABOUT "INDEPENDENCE AND FREENESS "PROMOTING A CURRENCY THAT WOULD NOT BOUNCE HELPING TO ORGANISE SELF CONTROL OVER MINING AND MINERAL WEALTH , HELPING TO RPOVIDE REFINERIES ROADS AND OTHER THINGS THAT ARE BENEIFICIAL TO AFRICA. THE CHINESE CAME ALONG TO HELP DELIVER SO WE COULD STEP UP. MANY SOUTH AFRICANS FEEL THAT THE GIFT OF A AFRICAN UNION HEAD QUARTERS SHOULD NOT BE HERALDED WHY??"THIS SHOULD BE SEEN AS A SIGN OF TRUE FREINDSHIP AND SHOULD BE PURSUED WITH AGGRESSIVE REALTIES DESIRING FOR THE TOTAL UNFICATION OF AFRICA "SPEAKING WITH ONE GREAT BIG VOICE " NOT DEPENDENT VOICES' CONTRADICTING THE TOTAL MANTLE OF INDEPENDENCE. WHAT I SEE IS THE REVEERT TO A MUBARAK ERA. WE HAVE LONG STANDING PRESIDENTS WHO WANT TO STEP IN THAT SHOE, WHERE THEY CAN BENIFIT FROM THE MONIES THE US PRINTS, SOMETHING THAT IS WORTHLESS!!!!! HOW SHAMEFUL!!!!!. I HEARD A COMMENTER ON "RT TV SAY THAT THE AFRICANS ARE NOT GIVEN INTELLIGENT WAR MACHINES BECAUSE IT IS TOO INTELLIGENT FOR". 2THIS IS HOW THEY LOOK AT AFRICA" AND YOU STILL KISS THIER ASS BEGGING TO BE A FRIEND, WHY? WHEN YOU ARE TRULY INDEPENDENT THIS IS WHEN YOU STAND UP LIKE A BIG MAN AND BECOME A PARTNER TO WHOM YOU WISH ,THE WORLD POLITICS BECOMES RELEVANT TO YOUR POLITICS , SPEAKING WITH MEANING PROUD RESOURCEFUL A BIG VOICE"!!!!." LULA OF BRAZIL ENAHNCED THE POOR PEOPLE TAKING 20 MILLION FROM POVERTY TO MIDDLE CLASS WITHIN 8 YEARS " HOW GREAT IS THAT??. THE PEOPLE LOVED HIM SO MUCH THEY BEGGED HIM TO STAY BUT HE DID HIS 8 YEARS AND STEPPED ASIDE HOW GREAT IS THAT. ??? I DO NOT SEE ONE AFRICAN LEADER LEADING NOT EVEN 500,000 PEOPLE TO MIDDLE CALSS BEGINNINGS WHY? TOO GREEDY FOR POWER TOO GREEDY FOR WEALTH. THEY WILL PREFER TO KEEP THE PEOPLE DUMB STUPID AND SERVANTS OF THE WEST THEY ARE JUST GLORIFIED PLANTATION OVERSEERS. THESE WERE THOSE WHO WERE GIVEN JOBS BY THE WHITES TO KEEP THE SLAVES IN CHECK MAKING SURE THEY DID NOT ESCAPE NOR GET TOO BRIGHT. WE SEE THIS SOEM OF THE LEADERS WE HAVE IN AFRICA THEY ARE THE SAME ELEMENT THEY MAKE SURE AFRICANS DONT GET EDUCATED DONT GET THE RIGHT SKIL;LS TO RUN THE COUNTRY THEY DEPEND ON EVERYONE ELSE EXCPT THE AFRICAN TO RUN HIS OR HER OWN COUNTRIES. THEY HAVE BEEN FOR MANY YEARS STANDING ON OUR THROATS KEEPING US IN THE DARK AND WHEN WE FIND THIS OOPRTUNITYTO LIBERATE OURMINDS AND OUR PEOPLE WE MUST ATKE IT AND THOSE LEADERS WHO ARE NOT ON BOARD MUST BE SENT BACK IN TIME TO WHERE THEY BELONG. WE ARE A STRONG AND RESILLIENT PEOPLE ONE OF EARTHS STRONGEST. I SEE THAT AS SOON AS THE WEST REALISED THAT WE HAD TAKEN FROM NOTHING AND BEGAN A PROGRAM OF ELF DEVELOPMENT THEY BECAME AGGITATED WANTING TO IMPEDE OUR PROGRESS AND THEY ARE WORKING WOTH DIZZYING SPEED TO MAKE SURE THEY REMAIN OUR MASTERS !!! WE DO NOT HAVE MAN AS A MASTER THERE IS ONLY" ONE SUPREME GOD " ONE CREATOR WHO IS MASTER OVER ALL THINGS" "HE ALONE IS CREATOR OF HIMSLEF AND LORD OF THE UNIVERSE"" NO MAN WALKING ON 2 FEET HAVE THE RIGHT TO DICTATE AND GIVE US ORDERS. WE ELECT TO WORSHIP WHOM WE WILL AND WE SATDN UNITED TO CHOOSE WHOM WE WANT AS FRIENDS AND NOT TO BETOLD WE CAN NOT DO THIS OR WE CAN NOT DO THAT, WE ARE NOT CHILDREN WE ARE HUMAN BEINMGS WITH THE RIGHT TO MAKE OUR OWN FREE CHOICES. IS NOT THIS THE WAY FO DEMOCARCY"??? IS NOT THIS WAY OF "TRUE MASTER AND LIVNG KING THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS" "PEACE RESPECT UNITY LOVE FOR ALL HUMANITY" IS WHAT WE AS AFRICANS SAY." WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEFEND OUR CULTURES OUR INDEPENDENCE OUR SOVEREIGNTY. SOVERIGNTY IS A VERY IMPORTANT WORD, IT MEANS THAT AS FREE PEOPLE WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY NO AND WE AHVE THE RIGHT TO SAY WHAT WE LIKE' " WE HAVE THE RIGHT NOT TO BE SUBRODINATE TO ANYOTHER HUMAN BEINGS" " THIS IS THE RIGHTS OF FREE PEOPLE"