Despite some progress, key challenges to implementing Mali's peace and reconciliation agreement remained, one year after the Government and armed groups signed the accord, the United Nations envoy in the West African country told the Security Council today.
"Quite clearly neither the signatories nor the national mediation team are satisfied with the slow pace of implementation," said Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). "This slow pace is difficult to understand and it is undermining the whole process, particularly the setting up of joint patrols," he explained.
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