Mali FM at the UN:

"After Ukraine's first statements which already in 2024 openly claimed its support for the terrorist groups operating in the Sahel, that country publicly reiterated at the summit its interference in Africa... Here is a country that claims to defend its territorial integrity, which, under other skies, notably in Africa and in the Sahel, gives clear and avowed support to terrorist groups and other mafia groups"

"We are not fooled. We know that Ukraine is only the visible part of the iceberg of our countries' destabilization, intended to break their will to emancipate from a colonial tutelage that is gone forever"

"NATO's 2011 military action in Libya has considerably worsened the security, political, humanitarian and human rights in our region, notably through the spread of terrorism and of violent extremism."

"The Government of Mali reiterates its firm condemnation of international terrorism and of its foreign State sponsors which finance, arm and provide logistics and intelligence to this transnational crime."

"Terrorism that is nurtured and sustained manifests itself essentially in 3 forms. First, an armed form we already know; it attacks civilian populations and our defence and security forces. An economic form that aims to asphyxiate our countries. And finally, a media form particularly through organized disinformation and systematic -- our countries are its victims at the hands of certain nostalgic media of a bygone colonial past."

"Our countries today are working ardently to generate from within the necessary resources, because we remain convinced that international aid, however useful, has never developed a country... In short, once again, we count first of all on ourselves."

"Mali reaffirms its total support to the brotherly Palestinian people in its legitimate fight to exist as a State in its own right."