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Vol 5 (AAC) No 12

Published 1st October 2012


Mali

Beijing backs Bamako’s army

China will continue to support the Bamako government’s position and ‘will bring our aid to the extent that it is possible, in particular to the army, where we already have cooperation that is well established’, Guo Xueli, Chargé d’Affaires in the Mali Embassy, asserted on 24 September. This is unusual: in previous African crises, Chinese diplomats have merely called for calm and negotiations between governments and rebels.

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