Paris warned Friday, November 12, Moscow that the deployment of mercenaries from the Russian paramilitary company Wagner in the Sahel-Saharan strip would be “
unacceptable
”, during a bilateral ministerial meeting in Paris.
The French Ministers of Foreign Affairs and of the Armed Forces, Jean-Yves Le Drian and Florence Parly, during an interview in Paris with their counterparts Sergei Lavrov and Sergei Choïgou "
reiterated their messages of firmness regarding the risks of regional destabilization and attack on the interests of France and its partners engaged in the fight against terrorism in the Sahel
”, according to a joint statement, while the junta in power in Bamako threatens to use the services of the private Russian company Wagner, described as close to the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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