UN General Assembly
2024

This is the view of a country that, since 2012, has faced a **complex, multidimensional crisis**—with over half its territory lost at one point, and countless innocent lives claimed—due to the **unholy alliance between terrorist groups and armed factions**. --- **Mr President,** Mali’s tragedy began when the Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda on 11 September 2006. This situation was worsened by NATO's disastrous military intervention in Libya in 2011, destabilising the entire region by fuelling terrorism, arms trafficking, money laundering, manipulated inter-communal conflicts, and violence perpetrated by foreign-backed groups. Confronted with the **failure of international forces** deployed since 2013, Mali’s authorities decided to reclaim their sovereignty. Since Colonel Assimi GOÏTA was sworn in as President of the Transition on 7 June 2021, Mali has undertaken a comprehensive programme of reform and military restructuring. --- Through the **National Refoundation Conferences**, launched in December 2021, Malians conducted a nationwide diagnostic and adopted **517 major recommendations**. These reforms address the root causes of the crisis and provide a blueprint for rebuilding the nation.