Steinmeier does not want to expand the Mali-use

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Steinmeier does not want to expand the Mali-use

The Dutch UN units plan for the withdrawal, together with your helicopter. This would have an impact on the Bundeswehr mission in the African country.

A Bundeswehr soldier during the training of Malian soldiers

For the beginning of 2017 planned withdrawal of Dutch rescue and helicopter gunships of the common base in the former rebel stronghold of Gao must be a priority of the other allies offset, said Federal foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German press Agency. “Not Germany’s duty and certainly not in the first row to replace the previously of the low countries provided the helicopter,” he said. According to a report from tagesschau.de the Bundeswehr has already indicated that if no other country fills the gap that the Dutch snap with your air unit, the German participation in the UN mission MINUSMA could be finished in Mali.

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According to information from the German government, the United Nations (UN) are already in contact with countries that could step in. The German armed forces for five months in the North of the West African crisis state. Currently, there are about 300 soldiers are stationed. The area, in 2012 it was temporarily in the hands of Islamist and other rebel groups. Even today, it always comes back to attacks, and attacks on UN troops.

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The use in West Africa is not harmless. In the past week was, for the first time fired on a military patrol. The UN Mission is to contribute to the implementation of a peace agreement of the government with rebels. The German troops to cooperate in the Gao closely with the Dutch. At the beginning of June, the Federal government was surprised by the withdrawal plans in the Netherlands. At the beginning of the Bundeswehr’s deployment made no mention of it. The Bundestag mandate allows the use of up to 650 German soldiers – twice as many as currently.

cgn/gri (dpa, tagesschau.de)