🇲🇱🇧🇫🤝🇳🇪 — Via its official medias, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mali published the officialm declaration warning that an intervention by ECOWAS or France, or both, against the New Junta of Niger will be considered as an act of aggression by them and outlined that they would intervene on behalf of the Niger

Dividing the Statement in 6 points, the Joint Communique states that:
— Mali and Burkina Faso both expresses their fraternal solidarity with Niger and that the peoples of their nations have decided in FULL RESPONSIBILITY to take destiny into hand and defend the sovereingty of Niger as brothers
— Mali and Burkina Faso both denounce the sanctions imposed by regional organizations on them, aggravatting the suffering of local populations and jeopardizing the Pan-Africanism
— Mali and Burkina Faso both denounce the "illegal, illegitimate and inhuman sanctions" against the new authorities and the people of Niger
— Mali and Burkina Faso both denounce the plans of Military intervention against Niger, saying that it will amount on war against both nations
— Mali and Burkina Faso warn that an military intervention by ECOWAS will result in permanent withdrawal from both nations from the regional bloc and both nations will enact self-defense measures in support of the Armed Forces and the people of Niger against the act of aggression by ECOWAS
— Mali and Burkina Faso both warn against the disastrous consequences for the entire region, including Europe, saying that it will lead to worse aspects than the "Unilateral NATO aggresion against Libya" in 2011 and that it may provoke the spread of Jihadist Terrorism in Sahel and ALL Africa as consequences of the conflict

🔗 Ministère des Affaires étrangères du Mali (@MaliMaeci)

* - ECOWAS = Economic Community of West African States, the West African Economic Bloc
** - WAEMU = West African Economic and Monetary Union, the West African equivalent of Schengen Area