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"Terrorism is not inevitable," says Le Drian in Ivory Coast

2021-06-11T02:04:54.875Z


The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, estimated Thursday, June 10 that "the scourge of terrorism is not inevitable", in ...


The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, estimated Thursday, June 10 that "

the scourge of terrorism is not inevitable

", by participating in the inauguration in Côte d'Ivoire of the International Academy of Struggle against terrorism (AILCT).

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"

The scourge of terrorism is not inevitable neither in Africa nor elsewhere, it is a threat that we must fight, as we will continue to do in the Sahel and as we will do here together

", declared Jean- Yves Le Drian by inaugurating this academy in Jacqueville, near Abidjan, alongside Ivorian Prime Minister Patrick Achi and his Minister of Defense, Téné Birahima Ouattara. "

We do it with consistency and pragmatism, by mobilizing the best specialists in optimal infrastructures

", according to the head of French diplomacy. "

We know that our responsibility is to fight together this common enemy whose abuses in the Sahel concern us directly, because on the threat map, the Sahel is the southern border of Europe and the northern border of the Gulf States. Guinea,

”he said.

According to him, "

it is very precisely the meaning and the vocation of the AILCT (...) which will now be able to operate at full capacity

".

"

As we conceived it together, as it exists today, the AICLT is at the same time an interministerial school for executives, a training and hardening center for intervention units and an institute of strategic research

, ”he explained.

"

Intensify military, security and judicial cooperation

"

The creation of the AILCT in West Africa in which several countries are prey to jihadist attacks - Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqmi), Islamic State organization (EI), Boko Haram - had been formalized in November 2017 by French Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Ivorian Alassane Ouattara, on the sidelines of a summit between the African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU) in Abidjan. "

With the support of France, Europeans and the international community, the states of the region must intensify their military cooperation, their security cooperation and their judicial cooperation

" and "

by acting with the same energy and the same demands on 'whole spectrum of counterterrorism

', according to Jean-Yves Le Drian.

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He specified that the AICLT should welcome and train "

police, military, gendarmes, magistrates or even customs officers and staff of prison administrations

", but that "

it is also a place of exchange where they can pool their experience and to weave networks whose added value will not fail to be felt in these times of crisis

”.

"

It is now necessary that all the actors of the region fully appropriate this exceptional tool, while intensifying their common engagement against the groups which threaten them

", he added.

Source: lefigaro

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