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Mali seeks robust mandate for ECOMOG

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    Mali has presented a draft resolution in the UN Security Council which would authorise the deployment of ECOWAS troops under Chapter Seven of the UN charter, Sierra Leone Web, an online news service, reported on Friday. If approved, SLWEB says, West African troops monitoring the Guinea-Liberia border would be authorised to neutralize armed groups that have been mounting cross-border raids in both directions. Mali, which is the current chair of ECOWAS, has a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Mali has been urging UN member states to provide money, technical and logistical aid for the force. Germany undertook on Monday to provide US $250,000 to ECOMOG for logistics. Mali has also called on UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to set up a fund to support the ECOMOG mission, SLWEB reported.

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