... Tuareg paramilitary groups and radicals? What leverage do France and the U.S. have over the Sahel countries? What options do Russia, China, Turkey and Arab states have for expanding their influence? Is it likely to have paramilitary groups effectively ... ... Popular Diplomacy, HSE University, Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University and MGIMO University, as well as experts from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.
... blindly punishing it. Mali’s positions on renewing sanctions were openly known, and yet refused to be seriously considered within the French-UAE resolution. Rather than being some “hail Mary” to ruin Western diplomatic efforts to establish peace in Mali, Russia decided to side with what it saw as an ignored, if not bullied colleague and demanded that Council Members seriously include Mali’s interests in the final draft or have no resolution at all. In this light, Russia’s revisions to the mandate ...
... government renewed a strategic partnership signed with the Russian Federation in 1994; while in 2022, the
Groupe des Patriotes du Mali
(GSM)
provided the Malian government with a petition of 8 million signatures, calling for further partnership between Mali and Russia.
Russia is not the only suitor looking to establish new relationships with Mali and the larger Sahel region. Turkey, too, has been very active in the Sahel over the past decade, building: the
train line
between Blaise Diagne Airport in Dakar to ...
... the spread of Islamism in the Sahel region, the roles of the main actors in Mali's conflict and the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali.
The webinar was attended by Herve Juvin, Member of the European Parliament, President of the Identity and Democracy Foundation; ... ... University (France); Wolfgang Pusztai, Senior Advisor at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) in Vienna.
Russian side was represented by: Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General; Denis Degterev, Head of the Department of Theory and ...
... forces. If France manages to engage the West African countries, and maybe the African Union, within the UN peacekeeping force, there is a chance to overcome the crisis. But the outcome is far from guaranteed. In essence, it is a question of preventing Mali and entire Sahel from becoming a second Afghanistan.
In June 2012, construction of a second Mistral-class ship was commenced for the Russian Navy. Do you see more prospects for Russia-France military cooperation?
The black-and-white thinking of the Cold War is absolutely inapplicable today, because the entire world is in the same boat.
I lack the information necessary to judge the ...
