{"id":9261,"date":"2020-08-20T11:29:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T11:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deshmediabd.info\/?p=9261"},"modified":"2020-08-20T11:29:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T11:29:16","slug":"un-security-council-urges-mali-mutineers-to-return-to-barracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=9261","title":{"rendered":"UN Security Council urges Mali mutineers to return to barracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS, United States, Aug 20, 2020<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday urged mutineers in Mali to immediately release detained officials, including the country\u2019s president, and \u201creturn to their barracks without delay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 15 members also \u201cunderlined the urgent need to restore rule of law and to move towards the return to constitutional order,\u201d according to a Council statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was released ahead of a behind-closed doors Security Council meeting requested by France and Niger following Tuesday\u2019s dramatic coup in the fragile West African country.<\/p>\n<p>Rebel officers mutinied at a base near Bamako and proceeded into the capital, where they detained President Ibrahim Boubacar, Prime Minister Boubou Cisse and other government leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, Keita \u2014 beset by angry protests over economic stagnation, corruption and a brutal Islamist insurgency \u2014 announced his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>He said he had been given no other choice but to quit, and sought to avoid bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p>The Security Council expressed \u201cdeep concern\u201d over the putsch and \u201ccalled on all Malian stakeholders to show restraint and give priority to dialogue to resolve the crisis in their country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They also \u201curged those mutineers to release safely and immediately all the officials detained and to return to their barracks without delay,\u201d according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Security Council expressed its support for statements Tuesday by ECOWAS, in which the West Africa bloc condemned the military coup and vowed to impose financial sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>It also backed a statement by African Union chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat urging the mutineers to \u201ccease all use of violence.\u201d<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9262\" src=\"http:\/\/deshmediabd.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/UN-Security-Council-urges-Mali-mutineers-to-return-to-barracks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/UN-Security-Council-urges-Mali-mutineers-to-return-to-barracks.jpg 534w, https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/UN-Security-Council-urges-Mali-mutineers-to-return-to-barracks-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS, United States, Aug 20, 2020 The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday urged mutineers in Mali to immediately release detained officials, including the country\u2019s president, and \u201creturn to their barracks without delay.\u201d The 15 members also \u201cunderlined the urgent need to restore rule of law and to move towards the return to constitutional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9263,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9261\/revisions\/9263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}